It’s a wonderful feeling to touch your new baby’s soft skin and memorable to feel the innocence laid on the baby’s face. Little hands and legs cradling in your arms fills you being in heaven. Small eyes twinkling around and short smile can make you dance around. In short, it’s a great and overwhelming feeling of being a new parent. But sometimes, being parent for the first time may start to take a toll on your relationships like increased number of quarrels, no peace, irritation and arguments can be just driving off your relationship to wither. Working with these effective tips, you can make the relationship with your partner more exciting and energized forever.
Being a new parent never comes with the stress alone. In fact, it comes with the sense of an achievement well stitched with many more chances of strengthening the relationships you already bear. Just listen up to the responsibilities well.
1. Prepare yourself.
It is highly recommended if you already know your schedule on becoming new parent. You may have to read a number of books on parenting and baby care. So, this is the high time to get those bookish lines in action. All the books and advises will tell you certainly that being a new parent, you would be sleep deprived, house would be very messy or you would be facing a high unorganized routine. Discuss this with your partner and focus on changes that are going to happen after the incoming of baby. This will prepare you towards the very first step after your cute baby enters into the house. Consider the following along with other tips:
- Get to know about the things that your baby will need after getting inside the house like a baby cot, pram/stroller, stock of diapers and nappies, ready-made baby food items, ingredients for preparing baby food etc.
- You will also need some different kind of storage ideas where you can arrange your baby’s toys, clothing etc. easily. Attractive small covered boxes can be a solution to it.
- Get your room free of non required items. The time your baby is in your room, it is very likely for your room to get messy and full of baby items.
- Keep your kitchen satisfied with the regular stock. This way you can be ready for anything on time.
- Learn about the feelings and responsibilities coming with your baby. You will get less sleep, house will be messy, partner can get irritated frequently, baby will cry all the time and loved ones will visit more frequently etc. Decide how you both will behave and handle such situations without getting irritated.
2. Divide work.
Your baby is in now. This will lead to loads of work than you have ever done. Diapers to piles of dirty cloths, unwashed dishes to regular simple food, unorganized house to irritating mood, all comes with the moment your baby is in your house. So, divide your works sensibly. If both the partners are at home, mother can handle the kitchen while partner can work towards washing clothes and arranging house. If one is out to work then partner at home can do the needful things in daytime and rest of the works can be completed when another partner comes into the house. This will get your house managed faster. This division will certainly make the time more productive and qualitative for your relationship.
3. Settle your conflicts.
It’s easy to read these guidelines but really intricate to follow them all. It is certain and OK to arise conflicts. Baby’s crying, tantrums and unspoken needs will definitely land you both on a very irritating platform. So, make a habit of having discussion time every day. Share your views and try to listen most. Understand what’s your partner’s opinion and tips.
4. Sexually less attractive life.
This is also an unavoidable situation. After delivering baby, mother’s figure can transform from a sexy one to bulging one. This may keep your partner less attracted by now. Simple key to sink this problem is to accept this situation and also the fact that mother will not get attractive like previous in just next few days. It takes a while to get that gracious figure back. So, talk and discover new ways of making love. Also work on your clothing style. Put on those cloths which can provide you a new sensuous and admiring look.
5. Visiting of well wishers.
You are already deprived of sleep and now the increased number of your family, friends and relatives’ visits got high. A pimple has grown upon an ulcer kind of situation…isn’t it? Cool yourself down and think of handling the situation. Keep smiling to maintain yourself. Take the visitor’s help which anyone would love to do. Appreciate their visit and help at the end.
6. Jot down baby’s schedule.
We all have a fix schedule and so is with your baby. To learn new parenting life quickly, observe your baby’s routine like reasons for crying, wake up and sleep time, diaper change, healthy food items that can nourish your baby etc. If you feed your baby with regular schedule, it will control the crankiness of the baby. But still, after all the efforts have taken in order it may seem unsatisfying for the baby. So, learn this too. Why he/she gets irritated even done with diaper changed or fed or slept sufficiently. Doing baby’s all work on time can leave you less exhausted and you can rest with your partner.
7. Spend quality time together.
Your baby is sleeping now. Take this time as a precious and one-in-a-million chance to enjoy with each other. Do favorite things like watching movies, making any special dish, talking or just sleeping after making love. Making love increases the happy hormone supply into the body. That’s why it would be a great idea to step for this fun task too. Spending quality and fun time together will certainly strengthen your bond.
8. Play with your baby.
Baby’s innocence brings laughter and fun both. Play with the baby. It reduces the tension you already have and will also suppress incoming of any. Playing together will be even more productive as you both can make fun around.
9. Fall for little cheeky moves to and fro.
Your wife had just now entered into the kitchen after making baby sleep and she is about to cook something. Just at that point, fill her in arms and gently kiss her. Express genuinely your love by saying how many efforts she puts in to manage house and life and how beautifully she fulfill every responsibility. Same for the wife too. Husband has just arrived from the office and then you showed up with lots of love. This will refresh and energize your existing relationship in no time.
10. Plan outings
Baby is small but that can not harness you by planning outings. But still, take care of your baby’s age. Plan short duration outings in the first few months of your baby. By the time your baby grows up, you can plan outings accordingly. When the baby starts eating main course of food, it becomes lot easier to plan outings.
