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The Recycling Mom: Saving the Earth.

This article is particularly relevant at this time in commemoration of the International Earth day. 22nd of April is usually dedicated to that effect. This is a time set aside to have conversations on how to ‘save the earth’.

Over the decades, global issues like climate change, deforestation, loss of habitats, wildlife trafficking and illegal poaching, unsustainable agricultural practices, pollution and pesticides have led to a lot of detrimental changes to the planet. All these activities have had a negative impact on wildlife generally.

The theme for the Earth day last year, 2018 was on End Plastic Pollution.

I am not necessarily talking about the political action and huge civic participation where people march, sign petitions, plant trees, clean up towns and roads to accelerate work towards conservation and sustainability. My goal in the post is to highlight the simplest things we can do to make the earth a better place for all to live in from our own corners of the world.

I am not particularly a minimalist but simplicity is a principal for me. I figure that ‘more’ or ‘newer’ does not guarantee a better experience necessarily. I do not believe things should go to waste. Blame it on my ability to find it hard to let things go.

I am the kind of mom who would save the egg crate, the Indomie noodles carton, the pampers carton or the used kitchen towel cylindrical rolls simply because I believe that they can be put to good use.

I find it easy to turn a used yoghurt container to the water colour container or the used salt container as the new pencil holder. I rememeber when I turned a giant whip cream container into my next detergent holder for my laundry. Thereby, reducing the need to spend money on buying new plastic containers .

I use a old tomato tin as my measuring cup for rice in my kitchen .

We have to be enviromentally friendly and contribute our own quota to save the earth.

I do recycle and believe in recycling. Therefore I encouarge you to do the same if you have not started yet. It is an admonition to develop a ‘saving mentality’.

I was so sad when I read about the big whale found in a coast line in manilla with tonnes of plastics in its stomach.

I actively recycle waste in my house. The plastics, used polythene bags, carton, papers, goes into recycle while everything else that is perishable goes into thrash. I even teach my little ones the need to recycle and how to do it. They usually find it quite fascinating doing this.

I moved away from buying a plastic table and chair for my toddlers to getting them wooden table and chairs. To embracing more wooden toy collections.

We need to do our own little quota of saving the earth and going green

What can you do?

1 You can plant a tree( as a big gesture) or plant a flower. Get an indoor plant. Plants take carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere to do photosynthesis, and thus help reduce the greenhouse gases warming the planet.

2 If you cannot plant a tree, you can start by recycling in your house.

3 You can teach your children to recycle and show them how by leading with a good example.

4 Re-use and re-cycle plastics. Be creative. Rather that buying a plastic pencil holder, you can recreate and re-used the yoghurt container.

5 Skip buying bottled water. Take your own water-bottle from home and fill it up with water. Nearly 30 billion plastic water bottles are sold annually in the U.S. Prefarably, choose stainless steel water bottle.

6 Rather than taking all your groceries home in those store polythene bags, you can go with your own grocery bag dedicated for that shopping purpose. I cannot tell you how much shopping bags I acquired in my house from grocery-shopping. However, I found ways to re-used those excess shopping bags. Rather than buy shopping bags, I use them to line the thrash cans in the bathrooms in my house. Apart from making it easy to get rid of thrash, it is creatively utilizing what otherwise would have gone to waste or serve no purpose.

7 Conserve energy. There is no point turning on all the light bulbs in your house. Switch off the light, plus you get to save money that way.

8 Conserve water. I know it feels good to linger in the shower, but that practice does not conserve water and not even helpful to your water bill at the end of the month. There are water-saving shower heads that you can install.

9 Go chemical-free. Buy organic and eat organic.

10 Go green with your transportation. Bicycling, walking, carpooling or riding the bus are the best ways to commute sustainably. Inflating your car tires, driving slower, and combining trips will all help you save gas when driving is necessary. Also,for long distance travel, you can take the train. I plan to learn to ride a bicycle myself!

Overall. try to reduce waste in your household all together. If you don’t need it, don’t buy it. If you won’t eat it, don’t buy it.

Support organizations and charities dedicated to saving marine life, fighting global warming or advocacy on recycling and waste reduction.

If plants do contribute to reducing global warming, then we have no excuse.

Choose to go green and save the earth!

“I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use”. – Mother Teresa.

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My Three-day Detox.

My family recently went to the Ocean city, Maryland for our first family vacation. It was a blast. We spent a lot of time at the beach. The children built sand castles, picked up sea shells, feathers,etc. Also, we explored the city. We did the board walk and it was great. We eat out a lot which meant we indulged a lot. From pizzas, to waffles, tonnes of scrambled eggs, bacon, french fries, ice-cream, etc. Hello, it was vacation! Don’t be too judgy of me!

However, I managed to include some exercise into my action-packed week. I was only able to work out twice during the week-long vacation, which wasn’t bad at all.

Peradventure it was out of guilt of too much “enjoyment” and all the comfort/junk foods, that I decided to have a special three-day detox, when we got back home. I decided to “cleanse” my system by taking an 8 ounce glass of water with half a lemon squeezed in first thing in the morning. Then, I proceeded to take a green smoothie as my breakfast. I did that for three days consecutively. I want to share with you what I did and hope you can try it out at some point too.

Day 1 smoothie:

1 banana, 1 Avocado pear, 1/2 Cucumber, 5 pieces of broccoli, 1/2 lemon(squeezed), 4oz of water.

All these were put in a blender and blended together giving the result pictured below.

Absolutely Delicious.

Day 2 Smoothie:

I decided to add more green fruits. I used 1 banana, 1 green apple,1/2 cucumber, 1 Avocado pear, 1 confluence pear, 5 broccoli , 1/2 lemon( again squeezed) and about 4 oz of water. See picture of what I used below:

Final Result was:

And this:

Just Gorgeous.

Day 3 Smoothie was the same as I had from day 2, only saved half of it for day 3.



Picture of the day 3 smoothie result is this:

At the end of the three days I felt really good. For starters, all the guilt had vanished !

Seriously, It was a good thing for my body and I suggest you try your own little experiment.

7 reasons why you should detox:

  • It helps with weight loss.
  • It helps purify toxins your body may not be able to keep up with.
  • It improves your immune system .
  • It helps to boost your energy
  • You will have a clearer skin and more shiny hair.
  • Clearer thoughts, improved thinking and better memory.
  • It slows down signs of ageing.

Embarking on a detox of your own is not a bad idea at all, considering all the numerous benefits it promises to give.

To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen

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Tips for moms with more than one toddler.

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” —Sophia Loren

Motherhood is a blessing that words cannot describe. Which is why I pray that every woman that desires such would experience this indescribable joy. Having one child could be a daunting task. Having more than one surely is not for the faint-hearted. Your patience would be tried. I am not even joking. Considering how I struggled a little bit when I became a mother-of-two, I want to highlight, some helpful tips for moms with more than one toddler. These are listed as follows:

1) Ensure the first one conforms and the other(s) would naturally fall in place and behave properly. Once that one has spent some time in the ‘naughty corner’, the other child would most likely try to avoid doing the same thing that landed the other sibling in trouble. Not necessarily as a ‘scape-goat” but as a perfect example for the other child(children) to follow.


2)Never buy different toys with different colors in the name of variety. To save your own life buy exactly the same toy with exactly the same color. For some reason, a different toy in the hand of another child looks very amazing.


3)Never leave them alone unsupervised, not even for two minutes, you might come back to the greatest shock of your life.

4)When you have toddlers in your house and its not nap time and everything is awfully quiet, they are most likely doing something naughty like unrolling the toilet roll all over the bathroom floor or rubbing the whole content of the vaseline container on each other’s head. True life story! With toddlers, honestly, silence in not golden.


5) Get ready to double up as a referee and judge because you will have to break up fights and your will have to settle cases, and mommy has to be fair!

6) You need to perfect your negotiation skills to ensure all the “parties” involved are happy with sharing the available toy resources. Otherwise, your sanity will be stretched almost beyond elastic limit.

7)Accept that your “me alone time” is gone forever unless you get really creative. Hence, manage what is left of your time well.

8) It is inevitable, your hidden snack bag will be discovered one day and will be looted! Be very forgiving when it happens.

9)You need to be the master of “reversed psychology” of sort. For example, you can say to a picky eater (who obviously has not touched his food) “ I just love my baby, he eats all his breakfast”. You will be amazed at how much the child would eat after saying those words.

10)Accept your fate and know your “me alone time “ is gone forever (Oh, is this a repetition? Yes I said it earlier in number 7). Repetition is for emphasis. Even when you think you are alone, your mind is active with thoughts of your children. So my advise is to deliberately take time out to de-stress and not feel guilty about it. After all if you don’t take care of yourself, who will?

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I think I should go Vegetarian !

This presupposition is based on three experiences I have had in the last couple of months. Starting with the most recent. Yesterday I was driving home from my children’s pre-school. I picked them up and we were on our way home. Half-way through the drive to my house, I saw a dead deer by the road side. Someone had hit and killed that deer. The blood oozing out was still fresh, so I figured the incident happened recently. I suddenly experienced chills all over my body. To be honest, my eyes even watered a bit. Why did that have so much impact on me? Already I have stopped eating red meat. I only buy occasionally for my children because it is a good source of iron.

Here I was, badly shaken and feeling so bad for the poor deer, when I know that someone else would be so ecstatic about the idea of free game meat and all the delicacies they can cook with it. Back in my home country, it is called “bush meat” and very expensive.

The second incident was when we took a trip to a place where we could buy live chicken, have it killed, cleaned and prepped and all. I remember walking into the store where they had different animals waiting to be picked out and killed to be eaten. I saw hens, ducks, pigeons(for the love of Mike, people eat that too!) , guinea fowls, rabbits, goats, sheep, calf, fresh eggs. It was so overwhelming for me. Too much for my kind heart to fathom. Some of the birds were in cages, some were free-ranging. It was a perfect chaos and I kept feeling guilty for being in a place like that. I saw some cute little bunnies in a box. They were the cutest rabbits ever. That day, I knew somewhere in the future I was getting my children a bunny. Even as a man attended to us, while we purchased a couple of live chickens, through the weighing process, the preparation and actually paying for the freshly killed chickens, I couldn’t bring myself to shake off the enormous guilt that overcame me.

The third incident was when for the first time in my life I visited an abattoir. This was on a huge farm where there were various animals including cow, sheep and goat. We wanted some cow meat (which we thought we would find someone we could share a whole cow with) and some goat meat for husband( I don’t eat goat meat). Eventually we we left empty-handed that day because apparently people got there way earlier and had to wait in line till a certain time. In short, we arrived too late to have anyone attend to us. However, I left that placed traumatized because I saw intestines of killed animals, I could perceive the smell of burning animal skin and it was so horrifying for me. That day, I knew I would have to consider going meatless somewhere in my nearest future. I peeked into the room where they actually killed the animals and allowed the blood drain and I almost fainted. In that moment the nausea I developed was instantaneous. The closest thing I have ever killed in my life was a cockroach. I have never attempted to and never will, kill a chicken.

I love chicken but I hate having them killed, which makes me a “righteous hypocrite”. I am in a dilemma. Perhaps the solution is to just go pescatarian . I like eating fish.

Ultimately, should I just consider plant-based meals and embrace veganism?

Maybe I don’t know precisely what I will do eventually, at this time, but I know I have broken up with meat and that is a good place to start.

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Fun ways to make your family drink more water.

The importance of drinking water cannot be overemphasized. Water is very essential to every living thing on earth, especially since living cells are composed of about 70 % of water. Water helps to keep the skin hydrated and boosts its natural glow. Drinking water helps with digestion, circulation, transportation of nutrients, creation of saliva and maintenance of body temperature. Water also acts as a detoxifier that helps to flush out toxins and get rid of waste primarily through sweat and urine. Also drinking lots of water helps to improve the milk flow for breastfeeding moms.

Have talked about some of the health benefits of drinking water, it is crucial to discuss ways to help every member of the family get the daily water requirement.

The recommended daily amount of water is: 5 glasses (1 litre) for 5 to 8 year olds. 7 glasses (1.5 litres) for 9 to12 year olds. 8 to 10 glasses (2 litres) for 13+ years.

For adults, the 8 x 8 rule is used. Drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Since one ounce is approximately equal to 30 ml, so eight 8-ounce glasses of water will be about 1,920ml. This is roughly 2 Litres.

I am sure this recommendation might be a sort of eye-opener about whether each member of the house-hold is drinking enough water to maintain their normal metabolism.

The following are some of the practical ways to get enough water into your system as well as encourage every other member of your family to do the same:

  1. Get a clear Jug and put water in it. Either the water is from a filter or a water dispenser, fill the clear jug with water. This is for two reasons. First, personally I realized that I tend to drink more water when it is at room temperature. The second reason is that seeing water physically sitting in the clear jug is an open invitation to DRINK! Peradventure, you are an ‘on-the-go person’, just fill up a water bottle with water and take sips throughout the day.

2. To further enhance the appearance of the water in the clear jug, you can add to it some lemons slices or some strawberries. This makes the water even more appealing to the eyes, and you will find the little ones actually requesting to drink water. The water also tastes really good plus its so colorful and “happy”. The result is that you all want to drink more water. Who doesn’t want something pretty?

3. Put a bottle of water and perhaps a cup in every room. I tend to recycle things in my house. Hence, when we exhaust the content of a fruit juice, I do not discard the bottles. What I do is to wash and store water in these bottles and put one in every room in the house. You can put some disposable cups with it. This is because from personal experience, there have been times when I felt thirsty but was too bloody lazy to relocate myself to the kitchen for a drink of water. We want to avoid such missed opportunities to drink more water.

4. This particular advise would work best with kids. Offer them water in fancy cups or in colorful bottles or funny-looking bottles. We went to the Philadelphia Zoo at a point and got alligator-shaped bottles. Ever since, when I put water in those bottles, my toddlers tend to drink more water.

5. Also, this works with toddlers. I call it the “Juice bait”. What I do is to put water in my children’s cup when they are eating and tell them they get some ounces of juice if they drink their water. This works in most cases.

6.Just DRINK! This way you help yourself and also model good behavior for your children because they are watching you. I keep telling my children “water is good for us”.

I say to you today, Water is good for you!

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Queen of Multitasking

Multitasking entails dealing with more than one task at the same time. It involves assuming different roles simultaneously. In my opinion, moms are supposed to win an award for being so adept in the art of juggling different roles without any aspect suffering a deficiency. I understand that there are times when you have to do things with full focus, totally engaging your pre-frontal cortex( part of the brain that helps with paying attention). However, to survive in this motherly role, there is a need to engage in this ‘aggregate exercise’ regularly.

Let me give you a sneak peek into the sequence of my typical morning to help put multitasking into perspective.
Fast-forward beyond the waking up routine, the bathroom ritual to breakfast time. Having prepared child A’s breakfast of cornflakes and child B’s breakfast of golden-morn cereal. Yes, each child had requested different types of cereal. So much so for having assertive toddlers. I sat them in their chairs hoping the process would go on smoothly without any technical hitch.
I did put a spoonful of cereal in child A’s mouth and another in child B’s mouth.
Yes, for security reasons, I had to practically spoon-feed both of them, otherwise we would have had to change two set of clothes for two toddlers. That wouldn’t have made mommy very happy. Plus, I know your thoughts; ” Why don’t you just put bibs around their necks?” No, they wouldn’t let me put bibs on their necks as they believe they are “big kids” at age two and three years respectively.
Then I put baby oil on child A’s head and combed his hair.
I put a spoonful of food in his mouth.
I put a spoonful in child B’s mouth.
I put some hair cream on child B’s hair.
I put a spoonful each in both children’s mouths in quick succession.
Then I brushed child B’s hair.
I put a spoonful in each kid’s mouth again.
Then I put a bow on child B’s hair.
I put another spoonful in each mouth, then I went to fetch the shoes.
I put shoes on child A’s feet and a spoonful in his mouth.
Then, I put shoes on child B’s feet and a spoonful of cereal in her mouth.
Then I went to grab the jackets.
I put blue jacket on child A and a spoonful of cereal in his mouth.
I put the pink jacket on child B and a spoonful of cereal in her mouth.
By the time I was done with that process, I had two fully fed and thoroughly groomed kids. Plus a happy mum.
Total time spent: 10 minutes.

For the record, child A is a picky eater.
What better picture for multitasking do you need?
Mothers are geniuses.
They are amazing.
They freaking rock!
Ask the daddies to do it, they need at least 1 hour, and I am not kidding!

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The Salami Saga

Photo credit: Wadi Lissa

For quite a while, my son kept asking me for salami. For the love of mike what is that? I am a proper African girl and I have no idea what that looks like, let alone cook it. Thank God for google! I looked up the picture and saw the thing looks like meat. I was happy because a picky-eating child is demanding for meat- a rich source of iron. I decided to give it a try and make an “homemade” salami. I went to our local farmer’s market and bought 5 pounds of red beef, which I rarely do because I prefer white meat. Don’t mind me, I am a doctor both by the books and lifestyle, at least most of the time…lol.

I finally got to the ‘plating stage’. I cut up thin slices of cooked meat similar to what I had seen online, cut up some hot dog pieces (this is a season of hot dog for my son, long story for another day), added ketchup and garnished it with cucumber slides to make appealing to him, as great moms do. I smiled satisfactorily at my “healthy” creation.

Guess what? My son picked up a piece of this special “salami”, took one bite and moved on to the hot dog. I even encouraged him to dip the meat in some ketchup sauce. He said “no mom. this is not salami and that is not how the kids on the TV ate it”. 

I said, “Seriously? the TV is source of all my stress? hence forth, I am going to further limit your TV viewing time to so that you don’t getting funny ideas about meals mommy is not used to.” Don’t get me wrong; there is nothing wrong experimenting with foods for kids especially if they will like it. My main point is the impact TV already has on this three old.

I try so hard to keep all screen time under one hour daily as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, for his age.

The academy recommends that for children 2 to 5 years of age, screen time should be limited to one hour per day. For kids ages 6 years and older, parents can determine the restrictions for time spent using screen, as well as monitor the types of digital media their children use.

Babies are most vulnerable to screens. Infants aged 18 months and younger should not be exposed to any digital media ideally.

Take it or leave it, we live in a world of screens.

Whether we admit it or not the electronic media has a powerful influence on kids and we have a responsibility as parents to control it.

We can do something about it now before it becomes a ‘pandemic’ because already it is an ‘epidemic’.

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The “Luxurious” Mommy life

Sometimes I get so upset. Usually, I have my reasons but occasionally it is just baseless…lol. However, today I got so upset because I had my whole day mentally planned out, yet things chose not to go the way I had planned.

I picked out the children’s cloth the last night, meticulously ironed them and get them ready for this morning. While trying to dress my daughter up and a zipper came off her top thereby ruining it, so I had to think of plan B immediately, which was to pick out another attire altogether. I was still silently sucking at this happening when my son insisted on doing his own buttons so that is extra 10 minutes added to my morning kids-school-prep time. I finally got them ready and was about to set out when my 21 month old daughter said what every mother does not want to hear when you are running late on a Monday morning : “ I poo-poo mommy”!

“Seriously? You have got to be kidding me” I said as I tried to maintain my composure, so she doesn’t feel embarrassed because she is a very sensitive little girl. I calmly tell myself ” Hey Funmi, come off it, things happen in life”. Shit happens! Actually, poop happens literally. So I carefully examined the havoc done to the nappy. It was explosive and humongous. I prayed hard under my breathe to God. I said “ Lord, help me!” Indeed He did, because I succeeded in clearing the mess, washed her up with soap and water, dried her up and got a new nappy and new pair of socks. We finally set out for the day.

My luxurious mommy life. I wouldn’t trade it for anything else in the world.

P:S : This incident happened when my daughter was 21 months old, now she is 31 months old.

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Self-care in Motherhood.

Picture by Bethany Beck.

I flew all over the country in the last couple of weeks and each of these flights had one thing in common – the safety demonstration announcements that entails seat belts and the emergency exit and all that good stuff. However, the part of the announcement that usually grabs my attention, after the preceding pleasantries, is this:

 “…..Oxygen and the air pressure are always being monitored. In the event of a decompression, an oxygen mask will automatically appear in front of you. To start the flow of oxygen, pull the mask towards you. Place it firmly over your nose and mouth, secure the elastic band behind your head, and breathe normally. Although the bag does not inflate, oxygen is flowing to the mask. If you are travelling with a child or someone who requires assistance, secure your mask on first, and then assist the other person. Keep your mask on until a uniformed crew member advises you to remove it…”

Now, in my little experience with motherhood I have come to realize that there is usually the tendency to always assist the other person first – either the child or children (as the case may be) or the husband. As mothers, we instinctively put other people before ourselves which seems to be the natural thing to do.

There is an adage in my mother tongue that says that “when there is a fire outbreak in one’s home, it is expected for you to try to put out the fire on your own clothing first before helping others”. Again, in reality that is not what mothers seem to do. Mothers keep giving and giving till all there is left to do is even more giving.

Nevertheless, there is usually a limit to which we can stretch ourselves as humans. Hence, the need to be reminded on the essence of self-care as moms. Self-care is the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s own health. Mothers have to assume an active role protecting their own well-being before that of others especially during periods of stress. You are the custodian of your own happiness. Self-care is usually deliberate and self-initiated. It is commonsensical right? Simply because it obviously has “self” in it.

Here are a few ways to self-care as moms without feeling any iota of guilt.

1) Never joke with your beauty sleep.

You need it. No bingeing on Netflix when you should be sleeping. Someone, somewhere, somehow is going to pay for it the next day and it won’t be pretty. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 7-9 hours of sleep for adults 26-64 years and 7-8 hours for adults 65 years and older.

2) Be okay to say No sometimes.

You do not have to attend every social gathering. Don’t feel pressured into attending parties you know you cannot afford to attend for the sake of your own well-being. Your schedule is already crammed enough. Take care of yourself and be happy to say no without feeling any guilt.

3)Cut down on the caffeine.

 I know some people literarily function on coffee, but you need to cut it down. I rarely ever take coffee and if I have to, it is usually decaffeinated. Many people have become seemingly addicted to coffee with symptoms of anxiety and agitation when they don’t drink coffee. High consumption of unfiltered coffee (boiled or espresso) has been associated with mild elevations in cholesterol levels. In turn, elevated cholesterol level is associated with heart disease.

4) Drink a cup of water first thing in the morning.

 This helps rehydrate the body and increase the level of your alertness. Also, it helps fuel your brain activity since the human brain is made up of 73% water and eventually boost your productivity.

5) Turn off the Tech.

 Just shut it all down and wind down in a corner with a nice book and a lovely cup of tea. No Facebook, no facetime, no Instagram, no Watsapp, no Linkedin, no twitter, no pinterest, no TV, no I-pad, don’t even check any emails. Just shut it all off and savor the quietness. Enjoy the quietness and chill from all the buzzing of life in the fast lane. Enjoy being bored for once. Take pleasure in doing ‘nothing’.

6) Give yourself a treat.

Take yourself for a synchronized body massage. Do your manicure and pedicure. Make your hair. Put on some Yankee candles. Go for a sauna session. Take yourself out on a shopping spree. Buy yourself an ice-cream cone. Go watch a nice movie at the cinema with large-sized popcorn and a drink. Schedule a lunch date with a girl-friend of yours. Take a girl’s trip to a destination spot. Have a staycation for a personal retreat. Just do whatever you need to do. You deserve it.

7) Have a mini dance party at least once a week.

 This doesn’t have to be elaborate just put on your favourite song and dance away for some minutes. Nothing fancy just you doing your thing. I do this usually on Saturday mornings and my two little toddlers join my party. Plus, it’s a great form of exercise.

8) Take five minutes to Decompress.

No matter how crazy your day goes, always find five minutes when you just wind down, chill and basically do nothing for those precious minutes. Do not think about the next menu, what the children would wear to school or that big project from work. Just shut it all down and in quietness “reboot” your body system in those five minutes.

9) Move for at least half an hour each day.

Be it thirty minutes of brisk walking or some form of aerobic exercise. If you are able to make it to the gym, that’s fine. If all you could get is a brief lunchtime stroll, that’s also good. Just get moving and pump some fresh air into your lungs.

10) Observe your Kegel exercises.

This helps in toning and strengthening your pelvic floor muscles. The Kegel exercise is best described as what you do by holding your pee-pee mid-stream while urinating ,but that is not ideal. You should squeeze your pelvic floor muscles for about ten seconds. You can do three reps at a time. Then, altogether you can do three sets each day. The good thing is that nobody knows you are doing it. Apart from the fact that it helps women with stress incontinence, it also improves your sex life.

The simple logic of self-care is that you cannot pour from an empty cup, you have to fill your cup first.

You need all the oxygen you can get. So go ahead and ensure you secure your own mask first. If you do not take care of yourself as a mom, who will?