How to Feel Beautiful After Having a Baby
1. Laugh and enjoy the company of people that make you feel good. Listen to music together. Have a small fire pit (without the baby) or get together for a meal. Pass the baby around. 2. Exercise-Getting your heart rate moving and blood pumping is the best way to feel alive and well (my definition of beautiful). 3. Drink fluids- This will help with night sweats, and overall 4. Limit low energy foods like processed preserved and fast foods 5. Increase high energy foods like vegetables, fruits and raw nuts (see the link to my postpartum smoothie) 6. Get fresh air- my favorite way to get fresh air is to put the baby in the stroller and go for a walk on the second steepest hill in town. Note I said the second steepest hill. I'm not ready for the big one. 7. Wear a belly wrap- not to feel skinny, but to feel together and collected. Aruyvedic medicine advises tying a scarf around the belly to eliminate the empty feeling one may get after having a baby. Also recommended in that pract...