Hi fellas, I have a 1 yr old and another on the way. This time around I’d like to be better prepared to get through that first 2 months after birth as I know it can be brutal. No reliable family to help, besides visit. Is there anything you’d recommend we do to survive that first period? Considering hiring help to watch both kids in the morning so we can catch up on sleep. Thoughts?

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Freeze as much food as possible ahead of time so you don’t have to cook besides thawing something and mixing a bagged salad. If you can do that for all dinners and most breakfasts, you’ll be killing it. Lots of casseroles, lasagna, etc.

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Hire help. Full stop. Especially if both you and spouse are full time employees. It's the only known way to preserve your sanity. My wife and I lost our sanity for a year or so during COVID as we lost our nanny. It's... horrible.

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We had a night nurse 2 nights/week starting week 2 or 3 after having our second and it was amazing. Highly recommend.

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