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✤✤ Walk. Connect to the world around you, move your body,
and feel better.
✤✤ Join a Hot Mama support group. A new mother’s group is
a safe place to share all of your joys and gripes, to feel validated and understood, and to get information. ✤✤ Keep a list of good babysitters handy so that you can steal
away at a moment’s notice, even if just for a solo trip to the grocery store. ✤✤ Make a list of priorities, and abide by it. Enlist your part-
ner’s help in drafting the list so that everyone knows what’s going on when the socks start piling up. (That’s when you say, “Oh honey, that’s last on my list!”) ✤✤ Ask
for help. Say yes to any offer of shopping, cleaning, cooking, or child supervision.
✤✤ Take care of yourself. Visit the hair salon. Buy feel-good
clothes for your transition phase. Exercise. Reread Chapter 5. ✤✤ Join a gym or diet club if extra weight is posing a challenge. ✤✤ Be nice to your partner — no snapping!
Self-care at the levels of body, mind, and soul instills the balance essential to good parenting. Both during and after pregnancy, all the Hot Mamas we interviewed noted the importance of realizing that while motherhood will enhance your life in www.e-buku.webs.com