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[quote=Anonymous]PPs all have good advice.  I would add: Getting out of the house with your baby will be hard.  Do not put pressure on yourself to do it.  You will want to get out -- you miss being active, you're stir crazy, etc.  But the baby is sleeping and then she needs to eat and then be changed and by the time you are ready to go she is sleeping again.  If you can roll with it, especially in those first few weeks, do so.  There's nothing wrong with cuddling on the couch all day.  I think I started walking the dog (without DH) around 7 or 8 weeks, certainly not earlier.

If you have to be somewhere at a particular time during the first 6 weeks, try to schedule help for that appointment.  Even with help, plan to arrive about 30 minutes early.  Probably that way you will be on time, and if you actually manage to be early then baby is still small enough to nurse or nap wherever.

I found that baby and I could do one thing each day.  If we needed to go to the ped, or the store, or a social event, that was our one thing and we scheduled the rest of the day around it.  This is still pretty true even at 3 months: it's a rare day when I try to make two separate outings with baby, although I can usually walk the dog and do an outing if I plan ahead.  You think you can squeeze in that one extra trip, because it's right there on the way, but usually it's better not to.  It's kind of the same as carrying things up and down the stairs: what you could do in one trip without the baby, you do in three trips with the baby.  When I really need to get stuff done, I have MIL watch the baby at my house so I can go run errands.

Good luck![/quote]

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