Mindful New Mum

A month-by-month resource offering stage-specific wellness practices to help new mums care for themselves through the first year. A natural, supportive, empowering start to motherhood - for mental, emotional and physical wellness when you need it most. Your new baby is here! Your world has turned upside down! And with all your focus on your precious little one, it's easy to forget to look after yourself properly. But natural, holistic self-care has never been more important than it is now. As you move through your first year as a new mother, Mindful New Mum gives you the curated wellness practices you need to care for yourself with the same compassion and commitment that you give to your growing baby. Find natural remedies to help manage interrupted sleep and strong emotions, healthy foods to boost energy and improve low mood, visualizations and affirmations to soothe and support, mini-meditations and longer meditative practices to calm and centre you, and to share with your baby. Enjoy gentle, targeted yoga, with your baby and alone, to ease the aches and pains of early motherhood and build strength and flexibility. Use mindful massage to bond with your baby and nourish your body. Feel supported and cared for as you begin this new chapter of your life, with encouraging expert psychological advice and practical self-care techniques that will help you to embrace motherhood with confidence and cherish yourself and your baby. Author Dr Caroline Boyd is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, HCPC registered, with nearly 10 years' experience working in the NHS. She specialises in supporting parents perinatally - from pregnancy to childbirth and all aspects of the transition to parenthood. She works with Dr Emma Svanberg as part of the Mumologist Psychology Collective and has a mind and body approach and promotes "resisting the supermum myth".