& just like that Indie turned one 🥹❤️🎉 Definitely a huge moment for reflection on parenthood. If I could go back and tell myself as a new born mum anything it would be: 💕Go slower than you think is slow. This is the time for healing and a very brief and beautiful moment to just be as your new little family. Nothing is more precious than that. Busy is overrated. 💕Ask for help, someone doing dinner, helping wash the dishes, a load of laundry on, or simply just taking the baby for a walk whilst you have some space to yourself is gold. 💕Know that to your baby you are everything you need in a human. Everybody has an opinion on motherhood but none is as important as yours for your baby. 💕Get outside, especially in the beginning it can be so hard to even leave the house. Gradually it becomes more doable, and even if it’s fleeting it goes huge lengths to serve the soul and reset the mind. Often as soon as I’d take indie outside she’d calm down almost immediately 💕Being a mother is HUGE and is as productive as you need to be right now. Take the pressure off and enjoy the ride, it’s gone in instant. The sooner you can learn to go with the flow vs resist it life becomes a lot more enjoyable 💕Accept and grieve your old life it’s ok to mourn the loss of what you once knew. Know that the inner you is still there but give yourself time to grow into this new version of you. It doesn’t happen over night but it will become clearer with time. 💕Parenting is something we have to learn to do and grow into. Society can make us feel like we should already know everything, but how can we? Give yourself the grace to be a beginner at it. We’re all learning along the way - & making it up a lot of the time too! 💕You don’t need to prove yourself to anyone. We’re our harshest critic. The sooner we can befriend our inner mum and learn to nourish & help her grow the better off for everyone. 💕Quality of parenting vs quantity of parenting. The mum guilt is real when you leave your baby to do something for yourself. But without this no one wins as we cannot be our best mum selves 100% of the time without time to fill our own cup. Anything to add? Let’s help our fellow mummys! ⬇️