I'd tell myself to wear pajamas until noon instead of squeezing into jeans, skip the morning exercise routine and relax on the couch, order take-out instead of cooking dinner, stay off the scale and stop thinking about how my stomach looked puffy because it just housed a child for nine months.
But then I would remind myself of this advice to give myself grace and go easy on myself. I'd tell myself to wear pajamas until noon instead of squeezing into jeans, skip the morning exercise routine and relax on the couch, order take-out instead of cooking dinner, stay off the scale and stop thinking about how my stomach looked puffy because it just housed a child for nine months. These are the things I'd constantly remind myself of at the beginning. And this advice helped me to reframe my mindset: I wasn't being lazy...I was just allowing myself the time to recover and figure out this new life as a mom.