If you’re like us, you may be asking,
“How is it Monday already?! Do I really have to make dinner again?“
Yes, even we aren’t always quite ready for the week (and meal planning) to start up again – freshly postpartum or not.
Have no fear, this week’s postpartum meal planning recipe is equal parts quick, easy and delicious. In fact, if you’re not quite back in the swing of making meals again, there are other ways to get this dinner on the table. Consider having a friend pick up ingredients and drop them off to save you a trip to the grocery store with a newborn. This recipe’s so easy you could even ask them to just make it for you and drop it off when they come to visit. If either of those options might make you feel a little guilty, you could always opt for utilizing one of our favorite services: online grocery shopping and delivery. Check out local options from Peapod and Safeway.
Let’s talk for just a minute about people helping when you have a new baby.
Take it from us, we completely understand how hard it is to go from self-sufficient, put-together, independent adult to being totally at the whim of a watermelon-sized someone else, unsure of exactly who you are and how you got there – and sometimes in the matter of days or a week. It’s a big, scary change for a lot of people. The idea of having someone stopping by (even with the best of intentions) can be realy disconcerting. No one wants to feel like they don’t have it together, that they’re either not as capable as they thought or that they’re not doing as well as someone else who’s birthed a baby.
Here’s the takeaway: There’s nothing wrong with taking someone up on some help if you could use it.
You don’t win a prize for “Most Tired,” “Most Days Unshowered,” etc. Many times friends and family want to help a family with a new baby, but don’t know how to make the most impact. It wouldn’t be the worst thing to ask them to do one task before holding the baby (if you’re open to sharing baby). In fact, a good friend wants to do something that would be helpful. (Put yourself in their shoes. You can imagine it, right?)
Want to give that friend something to do tonight or one night this week? Ask if she’d mind making a double of this recipe – one for each of your families – win-win!
