TOP PARENT PREP TIPS

Kellie Eason RN, RM, IBCLC

Kellie Eason is a Nurse, Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Infant Feeding Therapist
​Milk...early parenting support in Preston Vic 3072 & Greensborough VIC 3088, Australia

The sheer joy of bringing new life into the world...the wonderment of it all never ceases to amaze me....
Oxytocin is an amazing and powerful love hormone, designed to make parents fall in love, protect and enjoy their new baby....

Reality is for most, the reality of caring for a new baby will create the most extreme of overwhelming emotions that you ever thought that could be.

Unless you have grown amongst a village of babies from when you were young though to your adult years, it is likely that you will feel as though you are in the dark about early parenting.

It is likely that you will have received amazing care in hospital and have exprienced a flurry of early parenting advice that will change from day to day.

Reality is, your baby is doing through rapid day to day development during those early months and this can be incredibly overwhelming...

Top Tips for Dealing with this:
1. Get as much preparation as you can during pregnancy

• Chat about this with your Midwife, make a prenatal pregnancy consultation with an IBCLC, attend an ABA Breastfeeding and early parenting class. Arm your tool box with possible case scenarios, so that you can strategies beforehand, as to how you are going to tackle difficult situations
• Check out our new health pro created online program FIT FOR 2 PRO, for your very own portal of information covering all things pregnancy, birth & parenting.  It's basically your one stop shop for all the health, wellness, exercise, pregnancy, birth and postnatal education at your fingertips that you can use any time of the day  

2. Communicate with your nearest and dearest - what is most meaningful to you.
Let them know you are tired and need help with whatever it is that you can outsource. You are not superhuman - its a fact that it takes a village to raise children and our village members need to know what it is that we need, as they cannot read our mind :-)

3. Reach out for professional support when needed

• Make an appointment with an IBCLC to help provide you continuity of care with feeding and parenting advice. Research consistently demonstrates that we are experts in helping you until your baby's first birthday!
• Speak to your Maternal & Child Health Nurse about what support is available through your local council

To find your local IBCLC in Australia & New Zealand
www.lcanz.org/find-a-lactation-consultant/

To find your local IBCLC elsewhere in the world
www.ilca.org/why-ibclc/falc

To find out more about what we do at MILK...early parenting support
www.milkearlyparentingsupport.com​

To find out more about FIT FOR 2 PRO
https://fitfor2pro.com