What do you find helpful from others?

People mostly want to see the baby, which I get, but I am incredibly sleep deprived and need help myself, not just someone seeing my baby.

I did get an offer of looking after him whilst I sleep, but not sure I would feel comfortable with that or not. Depends who is doing the looking after, he is breastfed.

What do you find genuinely helpful from family/ friends?

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Other people cooking freezable and easily reheated meals for us. Something with everything you need in a meal. Or something you only need to boil pasta with or even microwave rice.
For someone to empty/ refill a dishwasher or wash the pots for us.

As Sarah said, food deliveries are a huge help!
I did have my parents watch baby while I bathed a few times as I trust them 100%.
Even just someone to make me a cuppa was nice

I genuinely feel worse than in the newborn stage. The support in terms of meals seems to disappear after that 😞

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