think about this listing your to-do list, women. In buy to take care of everybody else, you have to take care of yourself (if not first, at least be in your own top 5)!
Please do this stuff. If not for yourself, do it for your family. I offer you 40 things influenced by Whitney’s wish to do 40 self-care tasks leading as much as her 40th birthday.
OB/GYN appointment: 6 week post-baby, routine prenatal, or annual PAP
Physical
Skin physician for “mole patrol”
Massage particularly if you’re achey
Chiropractor
Eye doctor
Dentist
Mammogram if you’re over 40 (self-exam if you’re not) — Whitney as well as I are going this week!
Therapist, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist
…and the stuff that’s still self-care, however less life or death
Sign up for an exercise class you will love, you’re worth the money
Use naptime for an on-demand exercise class or workout jar
Get your anxiety under control
Keep a notebook by the bed so if stress and anxiety is keeping you awake, you can put it somewhere
Buy a sleep mask
Meditate
Fix your posture at the computer/work
Practice yoga
Do kegels
Keep a gratitude journal
Drink a lot more water
Eat the great stuff
Floss
Put on some great smelling lotion
Take a walk
Stand up straight
Get some bras that in shape you
Donate of a pair of uneasy shoes
Clean out a drawer that bugs you
Clean out your purse, stock it with what you need
Wear a hat in the sun
Wear a helmet on your bike
Toss out some underclothing you hate
Learn to state “No”
Call a friend
Buy yourself flowers
Eat/enjoy something you love
Get a excellent haircut as well as color
Tame your eyebrows
Get a pedicure
Please think about whatever on this list. pick up the phone as well as make some visits during naptime. TODAY. cross out the product when you’ve went to the visit (or if it doesn’t apply to your body’s needs).
What did I miss? What other crucial self-care tasks must all mommies be doing?
Related: Self-care is not selfish; Self-care is a lot more than bubble baths as well as pedicures!
