Great Tips to Organize Your Life After A New Baby

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Great Tips to Organize Your Life After a New #Baby #beverlyhillsmagazine #bevhillsmag #family #marriage #babies #personalsuccess

Any and every lifestyle becomes increasingly more difficult to maintain when a new baby is brought into the picture. Whether you’re a movie star living in the heart of Beverly Hills, or you’re a stay-at-home Mom devoted to making a house into a home. Trying to continue living the way things were before the baby is unrealistic and attempts to do so end up leading to chaos and disarray.

So, to help out the new parents, following are a few easy tips and tricks that can seriously simplify day-to-day life and make for an organized, put-together household post-baby.

  1. Take a “Me” Day, Or Just a “Me” Hour

When disorganization grows, stress tends to build. The dishes are piling up, the paperwork is overflowing on the work desk, the carpets haven’t been vacuumed in a month, and no one is getting any sleep.

All of these elements tend to make life more stressful, and individuals tend to become more frantic and less capable as stress builds. This is why it is important to remember, every so often, to take a minute, or an hour, or a day to catch up on some much-needed rest and relaxation.

It can be difficult to find this time. When a babysitter is called to watch the baby, a new parent might look longingly toward the piles of dishes and think, “now is the only free time I’ll have to clean those.” But the trick is to completely put everything aside and spend a few moments simply breathing, resting, and recharging, so that when going back to work as a new parent in his or her hectic lifestyle, she is able to more effectively manage the stress of day-to-day life.

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  1. Try Using a Planner

Maybe life was easy to keep track of mentally before the baby, but now there are dozens of new tasks and chores to keep track of. There are two lives to manage now instead of one. Utilizing a planner to keep track of deadlines, appointments, and more, is an incredible tool for new parents looking to reclaim their organized lifestyle.

  1. Keep a Log/Schedule

One of the biggest complaints of new parents is a lack of sleep.

The baby can follow an erratic and constantly changing sleeping/eating schedule, which makes it difficult to rest for any period of time. This is why logging the baby’s habits is an incredibly useful tip.

Take a wall calendar or a planner and designate it for the purpose of logging the baby’s daily patterns. It might start out erratic, but eventually, a pattern may emerge. Logging makes it easier to preemptively recognize possible times to try to take a nap, or when it would be best to feed the baby to get them to sleep at a certain hour.

  1. Online Scrapbooking

Despite all the chaos, an important part of being a new mom or dad is being able to record and keep all the memories of their newborn baby. But taking photographs and videos, getting them developed or printed, and putting them in a scrapbook can be incredibly time consuming. Like many projects though, if it doesn’t get done fast, it can often pile up and never get done.

This is why online scrapbooking is such a great placeholder. Use an online scrapbooking website or program to download and store all the baby pictures in order with captions and summaries. This is a great way to cut down on time spent, but still have a wonderful memento from the baby’s earliest moments of life.

  1. Don’t Be Afraid to Trash It

Baby clothes are adorable, and once the baby grows out of a garment, it can be difficult to hand it down, donate it, or throw it away. Babies grow fast, though, and holding onto every onesie they’ve worn or toy they’ve played with can add to the already chaotic home of new parents.

Remembering that the most important mementos are the memories had with a child can help to give the little extra push needed to simply trash the extra, unnecessary or damaged stuff. Handing down or donating old or unused items simply makes room for more new toys and clothes that the baby will use and enjoy and gives you a chance to help another parent out.

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  1. Utilize Bins

Bins are never the most glamorous organizational option, but in the case of a new baby, bins are a wonderful de-cluttering tool that any new parent can utilize to organize their home.

Rather than time consuming clean up like shelves or closet space, bins allow for quick clean up. Having a bin in each room for toys makes tidying easy, painless, and fast. Customize the bins to the design of each room, making them a new addition to the décor, not just a bulky storage device.

Investing in organizational tools can be expensive, especially as a new parent, which is why so many recommend Best Egg for personal loans, to help new parents make their lives a little easier.

  1. Make a “Parenting” File

Keep all the best recipes, tips, and testimonies from magazines, family, parenting books, and friends in one place. That way any necessary information can be found relatively quickly.

Maybe make the file online instead, that way a simple “command F” can search a page for words or terms and make finding individual documents even easier and faster.

  1. Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help

No matter what, being a new parent is incredibly difficult, and friends and family understand that. Don’t be afraid of being a burden or a bad parent. Nobody knows what they’re doing, and everyone deserves a little help every once in a while. Don’t be afraid to ask for it. You can achieve personal success as a parent by implementing a few smart strategies to stay organized.

Jacqueline Maddison is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Beverly Hills Magazine. She believes in shining light on the best of the best in life. She welcomes you into the world of the rich and famous with the ultimate luxury lifestyle.