For mamas and mamas to be... if you ever feel stressed and your heart is racing a million miles an hour...
Splash cold water on your face. The reflex of immersion in mammals is a reflex that is triggered when the face comes into contact with cold water in order to optimize breathing, thus creating physiological reactions that allow our bodies to feel better. Some of the physiological effects that cold water creates are bradycardia (decreased heart rate) and peripheral vasoconstriction which allows more oxygen to reach the heart and brain by contracting the blood vessels.
Reducing STRESS and ANXIETY
#momlifegroups
Moms,
Here are the latest groups to join! Please tag the mom in the comments below to be added:
Body Jewelry Moms (Piercings) | @mrsv.xo
Summer Babies | @proudmommieof3
@thatmomwithahothusband is asking for volunteers to Admin the Addiction and Incarceration Support group. Please message her if you are interested in taking over. ☺👍
Here's the whole list!
Group Name | Admin
Postpartum Depression | @Heera
Fitness/weight loss | @jgruenwald
Miscarriage and Loss | @...
My husband and I aren’t exactly strangers when it comes to relationship challenges 💞. We have been together for 14 years and married for eight, so we’ve definitely gone through some growing pains as we navigated a long-distance relationship in college and our first year living together as a married 👫 couple.
But nothing has challenged our relationship quite like our first year as 👪 parents .
Before you have your first child, you have these grand ideas of what it will be like. There’s more slee...
@itsamemario, you deleted your post before I could hit send but this is my comment: I don’t know if this answers your question but this is my answer.
My son is 7 and he knows race and color. Why? Because he himself comes from a family that is multi racial and because he has already experienced racism. I also believe as his mother it’s my job to teach him color and the cold hard truth about society. He knows what’s going on in this world. I’d be hurting him if I allowed him to blindly walk out...
“You look too young to be a mom!”
Or how about …
“You have a BABY? No! You look like a baby yourself!”👶
Oh wait, here’s a good one …
“Are you the nanny, ooor … ?”
“No, yeah I’m his mom,” I’d reply. “Yes, I am young,” I’d agree.
Considering I got pregnant straight out of college, I was certainly on the younger end of the parenting spectrum. (No one was more surprised than me, I assure you.) And yet, I wasn’t exactly a teen mom. I wasn’t juggling school courses and motherhood, like so many s...
Mamas,
Once you're pregnant, doesn't it feel like the whole world has something to say to you? 😕 We're working on a new article and we want your input. What were the most inappropriate things you were told or asked when you were pregnant? Please comment below and we'll add them to our new post.
Thanks,
mom.life.usa😁
@xoxo_lynn2, no problem :)