01/28/2026
Whether it’s in a new mom support group (MSG), or a virtual feeding consult, or in-person visit, we find ourselves day after day sharing this simple tip that reshapes the entire day when you’re postpartum and healing, feeding a small baby on fragmented sleep, and desperately wondering how to use that random 20 minutes window between feeds and sleep cycles (to p*e, eat, shower or pump 🤔). The days feel long and then when they’re over, it’s easy to wonder what you did…. Or didn’t do that day and weird mom guilt creeps in or a feeling over overwhelm.
Try this. It’s simple and a game changer. When you wake up say outloud:
One thing you will do that day
One thing you will NOT do that day
One thing you will ask for help with
Here’s our example:
1️⃣ Come hell or high water, I’m going outside for a walk with the baby
2️⃣ I’m NOT folding the laundry that’s been sitting in the dryer since yesterday
3️⃣ I’m going to ask my husband to pick up dinner on his way home from work
Then, at the end of the day when I wonder what I did all day, I get to feel proud I made it outside for that walk. Guilty about the laundry staring out the dryer window? Nope. Never said I was going to do it. And, asking for help and accepting help is a learned skill. Asking for one thing each day, helps make you a natural. 😉
