Must-Read – Oh, Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year

Oh, Baby! Not words you ever expect to say. I mean you’ve dreamed of the day you would bring home your sweet baby; you’ve prayed for the moment for so long. It looks glorious, like dressing up a doll every day, or is it? In the book ‘Oh, Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year’ reading it is like talking to a best friend. Author Maria Lianos-Carbone tells you everything you need to know about surviving having your first baby. 

I remember finding out I was pregnant with our first; I bought every pregnancy book they had on the shelf. Having no idea what my body was going through an insight into the unknown. I was the first in my group of friends to have a baby and no one to tell me what to expect. I read I dreamed and pictured how glorious it would be. 

No one told me I was most likely going to poop on the delivery table from pushing an 8 lb baby into this world.

No one told me to expect newborn baby poop to fly across a room. I honestly wasn’t prepared for the amount of poop that was about to take over my life.

No one told me to expect my already large breast to triple in size and become as hard and big as watermelons.

Maria tells it like it is; friend to friend. In a comical and easy to relate voice. 

The whole time I was reading ‘Oh, Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year’ I was shaking my head – YES! Maria tells you precisely what to expect, the good, the dirty and how to survive the first year with a baby and still take care of YOU! 

It’s easy as a new mom to toss aside your worth and focus 100% on your new baby. But without self-care one day you will wake up and wish you kept on top of the little things in life, which actually are the big things.

Maria talks about the Sex you will or won’t be having.

The advice to take or not.

She talks about guilt, leaving the house, Maria pretty much covers all your burning questions and more. 

Every new mom needs to read Oh, Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year. Add it to your next baby shower gift, buy it for yourself, or if your children are much older purchase it anyways and have a chuckle or two reminiscing about the days when you first learned the word “projectile vomiting.” 

Guess what, you’ll never be the same once you’re a mom.

Oh, Baby! is available at Indigo or buy Oh, Baby! at Amazon.  

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Congratulations to my friend Maria on her first book – Oh, Baby! A Mom’s Self-Care Survival Guide for the First Year. As always, this blog is based on my opinions.