Dr. Chheda – Okay, when you’re the mom of a newborn, you feel completely overwhelmed. First, this is a new personality in your house. Second, you’re not getting any sleep. The baby is dictating the whole schedule, and they want to be fed or changed or diapered at all at the same time, and then you can’t figure out what’s going on. You want to try to get your life back into a routine. You want to get a little bit more calm. Don’t overwhelm yourself. There is a lot of things that need to happen not only for the baby, but also for yourself as your body’s healing.

So I recommend set just one goal for yourself every day. Whether that goal is to take a bath, whether that goal is to just call up a friend, whether that goal is let’s do one set of dishes or one load of laundry – but that’s it. Only one goal a day.

Don’t try to do everything. You can’t do all the household chores that you were doing before and try to take care of the baby and have your body heal at the same time. No, there are priorities. Your baby is a priority, your body is a priority, but so is your mental health.

So let other people take care of everything, and you set only one goal for yourself. And slowly over time you will get into a routine that you’re comfortable with, and you won’t be feeling so overwhelmed