What Every New Mum Needs to Know About Weight Loss

It takes nine months to grow a baby. Yet women often start thinking about ‘snapping back’ into shape within a few months or even a few weeks after birth. It drives me mad - the pressure and judgement and pure expectation that a woman can ‘get back’ to what she looked like before. Your body has likely changed beyond recognition, and may not return. It has done something amazing. Once you’ve had a chance to heal and recover, rebuild and restore, then, and only then, can you start thinking about losing excess fat. Here’s what every new mother needs to know about losing weight postpartum.

Fourth Trimester, postnatal, weight lossTasha D'Cruz15 June 2020weight loss, postnatalComment

What Self-Isolation Taught Me About Human Nature

Being in self-isolation has made me realise how vital and integral basic human communication is. Those short, meaningless chats with the cashier, the ‘good morning’ to the bus driver, the encouraging ‘I know how you feel' smile from a fellow mum with a crying baby are tiny moments of human connection that we take so much for granted.

In practicing social distancing, the whole world is experiencing how new mums feel in the early days of motherhood.

postnatal, Mental Health, Fourth TrimesterTasha D'Cruz6 April 2020fourth trimester, mental health, support network, self-careComment