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mu:: vol 1 :: issue 3 :: Beauty Tips for the New Mother
Remember the first few months of a new mom? You aren't a mom yet? Well, let me be the first to tell you, that old wardrobe you had of expensive, elegant clothes are never going to be the same again.
Throw out anything that needs to be ironed, dry-cleaned, or 'just can't get dirty or else' because. THEY WILL GET DIRTY! Spit-up is the least of your worries. My son liked to have power-poops the sprayed out of his ass onto anything that happened to be in the way- often the sleeve of my shirt.
Here's five basic clothing tips that will save your sanity in the early days of mothering:
1) Make sure the clothing is a cotton, non-wrinkling blend. That can be washed. And rewashed. And washed again and again. The loads of laundry quadruple with each child.
2) For children 6 months and under-- white clothing. Or cream works best. That whitish milk spit-up. It disappears with the wipe of a cloth and you are raring to go to that next important doctor's visit!
3) Give up the unflustered mom look. This was the hardest for me to learn. I wanted to look happy, adjusted, and GOOD as a mom. I finally gave in when I had changed shirts three times on the way out the door since either my breasts leaked, my son decided spitting up his ENTIRE Last meal onto my back, and then the pee leaked from the new diapers.
4) Bring along extra scented wipes, a towel, and some perfume. Your going to feel like the never-ending spit up rag. So why not wipe it up with a towel, use a scented wipe on your shirt (pant leg, collar...) and then use that extra dab of perfume to give that extra fresh mom scent?
5) Avoid silk. Spit up, shit, drool, and just about anything ruins it. And you don't want your breaks to leak or spit up to permanently stain the front of that brand new shirt do you?
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Ponderings for the next issue:
--Stealing Time to Be Yourself [online]
--When is Number Two? [subscription only]
--Blogging Mommies (running series) [running series, subscription only]
--Greener Grasses in the Workplace (or not)--Neighbor Mom to the Rescue! [running series, subscription only]
--Books Even a Mom Would Love--Review: It's A Boy: Women Writers On Raising Sons by Andi Buchanan [running series, subscription only]
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