14 Tips For the Single Mama With a Newborn
Each stage of parenting has it’s unique challenges, but the newborn stage might be the most challenging because it feels like both you and your baby are helpless.
As a single mother to teens, I can tell you with certainty that every stage of parenting has had its own challenges. From newly born through toddlerhood, the preschool and early school days, right into the teens and now young adulthood with my 19-year-old, there’s something in every stage that will frustrate or confuse you and quite possibly make you doubt yourself.
But having gone through all the stages, I also feel the newborn stage was the most challenging. Why? Because, especially if it’s your first child, it can feel like you and your baby are both utterly helpless. Your newborn can’t do anything yet, other than cry, eat, sleep and fill a diaper. They can’t even tell you what they need beyond crying. And you haven’t learned to decipher their cries yet, you might never have changed a diaper before, and the realization that you’ve become responsible for another human life is just beginning to really sink in (and possibly terrify you).
I’m not going to lie to you and say that if you follow the tips I’m about to give you, it will become easy. It won’t…
