Jodi Hillebrand

I walk into the home and I can see immediately, right, what needs to happen here to help her feel safe, secure, calm, right?

If there's chaos, where's the chaos?

Like, let's tackle this, right?

So I do all kinds of things for families.

I do meal prep.

I put something in the crock pot so they can eat when they're ready.

I put things together so, you know, they can just toss it in the oven.

I make sure mom and baby have, you know, clean clothes and bedding.

And, you know, if I walk in, I don't tend to take the baby because I'm there to make sure mom can take care of baby.

For sure.

But if she hasn't slept and she's like, I just need a nap, like I'll take the baby and let her sleep or get a shower or, you know, things like this.

So in calming that overwhelm and in providing practical support, this is a big thing I talk about in my book, The Postpartum Survival Guide, is you need people around you who are going to offer practical support.

So if your mom's going to come in,

Cook dinner or something.

Yeah.

And be helpful.

Great.

Yeah.

But, you know, if your mom is going to come in and, you know, oh, you need to be doing this and you need to be doing it that way.

And here, I'll just take the baby.