Q: “My husband and I are preparing for the birth of our first child. How do we organize our home (and keep it that way) for this next phase of our lives?”Sleep now. (Just kidding.) Congratulations on this new chapter!I’m sure you have all the essentials set up in your child’s nursery, so I’ll take a quick moment to put on my parenting hat: Trust your gut.
You and your husband are uniquely created to be the parents of your child for a reason. I know you want to do all the things and check all the boxes, but you won’t have all the answers.
Still, you’ll learn that you know more than you think you do. Babies have been born for millennia, and your baby will be fine as long as it gets love — and you get sleep.[Read: The Stress of New Motherhood with ADHD]I’m not kidding about sleep.
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