Tips for adjusting to new baby - Parenting Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I think one thing that's important to do when you're adjusting to a new baby, especially as a father, is to just plan for and budget time to help your wife. Your wife's going to need your help. If you have other children, you're going to need to spend more time taking care of the older children. You might have to make some sacrifices. You might not be able to go out and do as many fun things as you want to do or spend as many long hours working at work. I just think it goes a lot smoother if you just plan and budget time to help the family. That could be in spending time to do one-on-ones with your children or maybe just setting a goal of how many minutes a day you want to help clean around the house or something like that.
Video 2 Transcript
I think it's also important to make sure that your wife gets plenty of sleep. And if you need to, you can even take shifts where, you know, while one spouse is awake watching the kids, the other one's sleeping. But sleep is super important. Everything in parenting becomes, like, a lot harder if you're sleep deprived. It doesn't help anyone to be sleep deprived. So making sure that both of you get enough sleep, I think, is super important. The brain does funky stuff when you don't sleep for a while.
Video 3 Transcript
To adjust to a new baby is so hard. So really the only advice that I have is just take it day by day. That is all you can do. It will get easier. I promise. Um, but when you bring home a new baby, I have to, when you bring home a new baby, your world is flipped upside down. And for the first month, at least it's going to be kind of challenging and you are going to have challenges. Uh, you're going to be sleep deprived here. Uh, you may have a baby that cries all the time, but my best advice to you to adjust into a new baby is day by day. Just take a breather. It's okay. You're a new parent. Even if this is your third child, it's hard to adjust every time you bring home a new baby. So day by day.
Video 4 Transcript
We have brought 10 babies home. So we've, we know a little bit about adjusting to a new baby. The beautiful part about a new baby is the baby can be the lesson. You know, as homeschoolers, I've had three babies while I've been homeschooling the last 14 years. Those babies were born at home, which was really beautiful and awesome. So we didn't try to do a lot of things that first year. We, we made the baby be the focus with a ton of love and nurturing and discussion and time. And it's been a fabulous thing for our family to not act like the baby is getting in the way of the schedule, but make the baby the focal point as we develop around that new little person in our family. And it's been a beautiful, wonderful journey to put the focus on the baby and kind of just keep life simple.
Video 5 Transcript
Let's talk about when baby comes and you already have a toddler and you're like, how do I make my toddler feel like he hasn't been replaced? I think the answer is actually don't replace the toddler. Prioritize the toddler when the toddler wants something and you can set the baby down. The baby, the baby can cry for five ten minutes. I think that they will get less harm in their life from being set down and having a sibling who doesn't hate them. Also, while nursing, teach your toddler to bring a book and set it on your footstool and they turn the pages and you just say, you just say words that you see. Doesn't have to make sense, doesn't have to be in the story. You just read what's there and then they can do another book. Use it all day.
