Figure out how to take care of OURSELVES as WELL as our babies is a tough job. Tougher than most moms realize and we don't often have a good example of obtaining that fine line balance. Today I'm having my friend Bonnie Romney on to talk about how SHE makes it work in her house -- hopefully, to give you some ideas of how it will work for you!

Bonnie Romney is in many plays in the Phoenix area. I mostly picked her because I like her story of having to put some of her passions away for a bit when her kids were tiny, and then how she has slowly started picking them back up. I have learned a lot from her, and I hope you will too!

This post was inspired by my Maternal Survival Post -- which we talk about in this episode. It was a huge "aha" moment and I recommend you check out that post as well!

If you're looking for something to inspire a few parenting changes around your house -- check out my free practical parenting course:

Big thanks to this episode's sponsor Family Routines. If you're looking to simplify routines at your house, to ALLOW for more time for you -- that course is for you. Remember you can join for a month or a year -- there is no obligation to stay once you've finished. Be sure to use the discount code mentioned in the episode.

In this episode:

How do we preserve the person we were before we had kidsCan/do you want to be the same person you were before you had kids?Self-care goals to have as children grow-upHow hard it can be to have a newbornHow time magically appears as your child gets olderWe'll talk about some ideas you could take as a hobby or finding things you enjoy (or become a serial hobbyist)Three tips to moms who want to make a change!

Other posts that might interest you:

Pregnancy EmergenciesPTA president ultimate tell-allConfessions of a Primary PresidentFamily RoutinesOde to the New Mom

Producer: Drew Erickson.

Transcription:

Hilary Erickson 0:00
Hey guys on lucky Episode 13 we're talking about maternral survival. I know it sounds like we're talking about like biting through umbilical cords and using our machete in the woods but we're not we're talking

Sponsor 0:10
about putting your oxygen mask on first let's untangle it Welcome to the pulling curls podcast where we untangle everything from pregnancy parenting Homer, teens even some family travel because heavens knows our lives are tangled. I'm your host, Hilary Erickson.

Hilary Erickson 0:27
Hey guys, so I take a lot of I wouldn't use the word boring classes as a nurse and one of them is about how to do CPR and all that shocking of moms when they're pregnant if they were to come in and have like a coronary issue, and sometimes we talk about which we should save the mom or the baby and even now I still get parents who will say if if one of us has to die make it me not the baby.

And here is a newsflash it doesn't do a baby any good to be surrounded in a dead mom. And that's what they said in my class and I was thinking about it and I was thinking about how it applies to my life right now. I was kind of in a crisis mode, and I was probably dying inside. I think this was right around the time that I was PTA president primary president, like trying to ramp up this blog working, trying to support a husband who was looking for a job. It was just a rough time and I was thinking I had surrounded these kids with a dead mom. And it was kind of a wake up call for me because as a nurse, in case you're wondering,