What is some of the best advice you received regarding your pregnancy and newborn baby?

I've seen many questions regarding bad advice when it comes to pregnancy and taking care of a newborn. So I thought I would ask the moms/mums out there what is the best advice you received regarding your pregnancy or newborn?





This is the best advice I received: Listen to what you think might benefit your child. But disregard the advice that you think doesn't sound rational or fits your childs situation.What is some of the best advice you received regarding your pregnancy and newborn baby?
TO take one day at a time.





And it really is true. You will have good days, and you should enjoy those, and you will also have bad days, and if you do, handle it and move on to the next day.What is some of the best advice you received regarding your pregnancy and newborn baby?
Definitely agree with taking one day at a time. Sometimes it's hard to because you'll have those days where you'll wonder ';Will this ever end?'; but I've learned not to think that way. Plus you'll spend all your time worrying about tomorrow and not enough soaking up today.





Another one was take tons of pictures. We have, of course, and I love looking back on them so far. I don't think I realized how fast my son would grow and change in a year.
That Im not perfect, there will always be dishes to be put away, or laundry to get done. The housework will be there another day, your child will be grown up and tomorrow, don't wish you would have stopped and taken the time to lay with your child, do it now, not tomorrow.
Enjoy her while she's small because she won't stay that way for long... Soo true. I cherish every minute I get to spend with my little girl. Even when I'm resenting having to get up in the middle of the night when she won't stay sleeping, when I see her smile up at her Momma, it makes it all worth while, and I'm nothing but happy : )
To savor every minute ... the good, the bad and the ugly. Because the time passes so quickly and soon you be wishing you could have those precious moments back again :)
I was hospitalized at 36 weeks suddenly, and I didn't have hardly anything ready at home. The nurses in the neonatal ward were all very busy but one saw my rather lengthy list and stopped to sit down and set me straight.





Babies don't need all sorts of 'stuff'. They need a car seat to get them home safely, and a place to sleep. She even told me of how when she'd visit her moms with her newborn she'd put her newborn to sleep in an empty drawer on the floor.





All the manufactures of baby stuff make you think you need so much to raise a child, but in reality you don't *need* all of that stuff. You can change the baby's diaper on a towel on a bed or the floor if you don't have a change table (or in our case, we hadn't assembled it yet). A baby is not going to notice if you have hung the matching valances in the nursery or not, and they're not going to make use of any of their toys for a few months still.





I'm sure this nurse had seen it a hundred times over where mothers to be are stressing over all these little things that don't really matter much in the end. My husband was able to assemble the change table before I was induced, but it really helped me put things into perspective. There's more than enough things to worry about for any new mother, you really need to learn to let go about sweating the small stuff.