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It is official – we have a brand new baby in the house and that means we are back to breastfeeding, sleepless nights, and a whole lot of diaper changes.
With two older kids, I know for a fact the house will be even messier, but let’s face it: in addition to caring for the baby, the mom is expected to continue being a superstar and make sure the family is fed, clean, and healthy. Find yourself in the same boat? Let’s go over the tips that will help you create an everyday family support system.
Family Meals
Was stacking the freezer a part of your nesting stage? With any kind of luck you might of filled your freezer with freezer friendly home cooked frozen family meals. If you already have a baby in the house, consider buying frozen meals – easy to cook and big enough for the whole family.
When cooking, look for freezer friendly recipes and double the quantity – freeze a half for future use. This one below is my favorite Braised Mediterranean Chicken recipe.
Family Health
As a busy mom, feeling my best is one of my top priorities. What to do? Give your immune system extra support today! To support your immune system, continue taking prenatal vitamins and look into getting extra vitamin C through food and supplementation.
Get the other grownups in your house on board with supplementation for better everyday health. On one of my recent trips to Walmart, I discovered Ester-C®, a unique, exclusive form of Vitamin C designed to stay in your white blood cells for up to 24-hours, providing your family with around-the-clock immune system support. Bonus – it was on Rollback! In addition to Vitamin C, this supplement also delivers antioxidant support to help neutralize cell-damaging free radicals.
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Family Chores
With the family fed and the immune support practices in place, let’s think about clean home and family chores. While I would prefer an outside help – with somebody, who would clean the house for me, I cannot really afford that. However, since my other kids are a bit older, this might be a great time to get them involved. My five and seven-year old have their own chores and they get paid for many things they do around the house. You would be surprised to know what the kids would do to fill their marble jar. Yes, they get paid in marbles for the home chores! Whenever the jar is full, they can cash it for $20 and can buy whatever they think is important.
When it comes to big changes to your family lifestyle,
what is your number one concern – family meals, health or home chores?
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Congrats on the new baby! 🙂
I live by myself, but I try to cook some work-friendly meals (ie, doesn’t take a while to warm up in the microwave) and freeze them so I don’t have to worry about what to bring.
These are some great tips. It surely will take a family effort to adjust to having a new baby in the house! It’s great you can get easy immune support, quick, with Ester C!
Congratulations! And these are awesome tips. I really love how you pay your kids in marbles and when the jar is full they can cash it in. I think its brilliant. Will definitely share this with my sister as she is looking for ways to motivate her kids to doing their chores and helping around the house.
I love this! A lot of great ideas. My favorite is the marbles chore jar. I need to do something like this for myself.
All of them are areas of concerns. When I had my babies, I tried to freeze meals but what was more challenging are the house chores
The baby is precious. Congratulations! Immune support is so important and sometimes you just can’t get what you need without help and Ester-C is a perfect solution.
I’m trying to still figure out the best balance for our family. I’ve been slowly increasing the number of chores for my kids. I don’t want to overburden them, but they need to learn to help.
Our concerns are family meals and the chores. With 7 of us, it gets hectic around here.. We all take turns on cooking and the kitchen for sure.
Love the meal idea! I have to get better with freezing food. I take a vitamin C tablet almost daily too, keeping healthy is important because I don’t get a day off. Great post!
Great article and tips. I have 5 so a family support system is crucial for things to function properly.
Being single with no children except a cat who can mess up my apartment with a couple of swipes of her paw and no one to worry about feeding but her (I don’t count since I’m a nibbler anyway) I do not have this problem. I definitely sympathize with those of you who do–it is not easy. All those ideas above sound like they would help.
I focus more on chores than anything else. Food can always be ordered out but chores can’t.
I would have never thought to do the marbles trick . My oldest who is now 13 has been picking up more weekly chores, sometimes I have to reminder her but she is really good about it otherwise. My youngest love to do laundry – loves the feel of the clothes when they come out of the dryer and then she put them up to her nose to smell them . Cracks me up every time I think about it lol
You have to work as a team and do what you can to support one another. I love new babies, you are very blessed. Precious angel in your arms.
Congrats on the new baby! I used to live by casseroles. Everything tossed into one pot made for easy dinners.
I am so with you on having freezer meals galore. I don’t know what I would have done without them!
I WISH stacking the freezer had been part of my nesting stage. Cooking right after you have a little one is taxing sometimes.
Cute family. Great ideas and tips.
What great tips to ensure the entire family begins functions as a cohesive unit! #client