Confession:

I experienced A LOT of anxious feelings when I was a new mom. 

I knew nothing.

For some reason thought if I could grow a baby inside of me, that it made sense I would know intuitively how to keep my babies happy and healthy.

Was I in for a rude awakening!

My first baby spit up all the time and I had to strategically hold her upright at just the right angle to help her keep that breast milk inside after nursing.

Every single time I nursed her she pooped and it went up her back = lots of clothes changes, lots of laundry.

At about 3-weeks old she cried ALL the time for MONTHS.  Poor honey.  The doctors called it colic. I remember when I told her dad it might last for months and he slid down the wall into a puddle on the floor.

It broke my heart that she didn’t feel good.  It broke ME that I didn’t know how to help her.

That cute nursery I designed with the hand painted Winnie the Pooh mural was never used because the only way she would sleep is if I put her in her car seat, on the floor, and rocked it with my foot. And yes, I somehow figured out how to sleep while rocking her car seat.

Things I wish someone had told me:

1. It’s ok to ask for help
2. Consider finding a Gillespie Approach–Craniosacral Fascial Therapist
3. Look at your diet more closely as a nursing mom

Things I would tell younger, new mom me:

• Find a Naturopathic Doctor
• Find a Blair Technique Chiropractor
• Find a Gillespie Approach-Cranio Fascial Therapist
• Hire someone to help for a couple hours so you can sleep
• It’s OK that she is sleeping in her car seat
• Leave the dirty dishes in the sink
• The cutesy baby announcements can wait
• Get some doTERRA essential oils (click button below for my beginner’s list and to save 25%)

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