The Holidays. It’s a time of year that promotes joy, harmony and togetherness. And often arguing,disagreement and falling out over how to actually achieve this!
Discussion, finding areas of agreement and some forward planning can help you both achieve the celebration that’s right for your family.
Here’s 6 key areas you’d do well to discuss NOW in order to enjoy an (almost) stress-free, loving end of year:
When we love our partner and baby so much, we naturally want to be the best wife and mother we can be. Many of us leave a career focus behind for a while to do this. But we can also put unnecessary pressure on ourselves (and perhaps our partner) to do more or be more than is really necessary or helpful.
Elly continues her book blog tour for her new edition of Becoming Us with an interview all about Becoming a Leader . Listen to Stephanie’s podcast ‘Write Now’ where she discusses what motivated Elly to write a book about parenthood, the challenges she faced and where and who she is today.
Elly continues her book blog tour for her new edition of Becoming Us with a interview all about guilt. Read Jessica Cowling’s latest article where she asks Elly SIX very important questions about new parent guilt.
With the kind permission of Jessica, Elly is posting it here too!
You’re a few months (or years!) into parenthood and life has changed. Big time. But as your partner calls to let you know he’s meeting his mates for their regular Friday Night Drinks (because he’s “worked hard all week”), you realise things haven’t changed nearly as much for him as they have for you and you can’t help but want to scratch his eyes out. How do you cope with your partner still having an active social life when you’re stuck at home with bub? Should he give it up? Cut back? Or should you just call the babysitter and join him?
Elly continues her book blog tour for her new edition of Becoming Us with a fantastic new blog from Barb Suárez. written just for you!
With the kind permission of Barb, Elly is posting it here too!
As delighted as they are at the prospect of starting a family, many dads-to-be also experience some anxiety, particularly about feathering the new nest. Most couples make a birth preferences plan - it’s a good idea to do a postpartum plan, including finances, as well. This frees you up to make those wondrous first few months as financially stress free as possible.
He wants it - you don’t, or maybe it’s the other way around? Let’s face it, either way, your sex life is likely to suffer when you’ve had a baby – and there are good reasons why. You might not be surprised (and maybe even relieved!) that around 80% of new mothers lose their mojo after they’ve had a baby.
Our full 2 day live Becoming Us professional training had been a long time in gestation. So I guess it was right that the first time it was delivered was via Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness in Brisbane, where I was born.
“…A highlight of visiting Bumi Sehat was spending a special few minutes with a very spent family - two small boys asleep on the floor next to their bleary eyed father and a very proud big sister sitting next to an exhausted but relieved looking newborn again mother and her new very contented black tufted hair baby boy….”
