Part of the doctor's responsibility is to communicate important health information to new mothers, who in the subsequent days after delivering their baby may still be a little overwhelmed by the situation. Mother's bodily demands, as well as the baby's demands, may be preoccupying, hence, a little guidance from their physicians are needed.
Here are some of the top picks on what doctors missed reminding new moms:
1. Stay Healthy
During the pregnancy, no doubt mothers have vitamins and supplements to take every single day but doctors usually forget to advise the mothers to continuously take vitamins and some iron and calcium supplements. Eating right and eating healthy must also be a must among moms because they are nursing their babies and babies just get the nutrition from their mother's milk. Hence, post-delivery supplements are still needed likewise eating a healthy diet.
2. Love Your Adrenal Gland
Mothers will have the highest highs and the lowest lows every minute they spend time with their newborn according to Huffpost Parents. Decreased number of sleep and increased stress may shoot up their hormones so, they must be careful not to let the situation disrupt their motherly duties. Moms may try to relax and take a deep breath and some stress-relieving activities such as yoga and music therapies are good.
3. Proper Newborn Care
According to Mom Junction, many of the new mothers need to have basic familiarity on how to take care of their newborn because most of these moms put their babies at risk sometimes. Recent study showed that almost 50 percent of mothers were clueless on how their babies must sleep, 20 percent of women didn't know that their newborn must be positioned on their back to avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and most women have a hard time breastfeeding because they do not know the proper positioning during the feeding.
4. When In Doubt, Ask
New mothers are usually ashamed to ask questions regarding proper ways to take good care of their baby. It is normal to think twice if what they are doing is correct or not. They can always ask advice from other moms, their siblings and neighbors on the right and best ways to do something for their baby, such as how to properly bath the baby, best soap to use for babies or the proper position while nursing the baby, rather than putting their baby's life at risk.
The Bump even agrees that becoming a parent is exciting and a little scary at the same time, especially for first-time mothers. Moms need to be a little more particular about taking care of their newborns though it might be a little neck-breaking.
