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First time parents

Congratulations on growing your family!  For nine months you have been growing the baby that you now welcome excitedly into your arms.  This is truly one of the most significant life transitions you will ever experience.

When it comes to being a first time parent solely responsible for the care of a very needy infant, who among us is ever really ready?  As you venture further into this new reality, it may be dawning on you that your baby’s arrival catapults you into a whole new aspect of your identity – being a parent.  Indeed, you have embarked on a lifetime relationship of parenting another human being and nothing will ever truly be the same!

If you are like most new parents, you have probably given a lot of thought and attention to accumulating the “right stuff” – you know, all the baby paraphernalia to meet your baby’s physical needs and that make life with baby somewhat easier.  This is good AND there is something even better for enhancing your experience of these early days, weeks and months of parenting.  Think back to your pregnancy.  Chances are that you understood that your baby’s well-being in utero was intimately linked to your personal well being.  You probably made changes in your diet and lifestyle in favour of baby’s growth.  It’s not any different now that baby is here on the outside.  Your baby’s health growth and development is still profoundly influenced by your physical and emotional well being and will be for many years to come.  To your baby, who you are and how well you are take precedence over anything you do or proved.

Beyond anything tangible you can provide for baby is the gift of yourself at your very best.  For the next 12 months and longer, you ARE the environment in which your child grows!  At Renewed Parent, we support first time parents to take excellent care of their babies by taking excellent care of themselves.  With the help of a parent coach, you can expect to:

• Progress through the exhaustion and overwhelm so characteristic of this life transition to a place of restored vitality
• learn a lot about your baby’s needs and to decide how you would like to effectively meet them
• discover and celebrate the uniqueness that makes you the best parent your child could have.