Erin2 recommends getting out and seeing people.
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And like find that just like getting out and seeing people and then being like OK, life is continuing. Normal life is still happening despite everything that I’m feeling. And it’s easy to kind of get trapped in your little home, in your bubble, and it being a pandemic or not. Just being in that new mom mode. Really just being trapped inside because you have a newborn. Like your whole life is inside taking care of them. And just being able to get out of that space and like it’s almost like a reset. And like of course also scientifically vitamin D, being outside, fresh air, all of those things are going to help. And so exercise a big one. So like that was definitely like helped me. Helped me through just going outside. Throwing him in the stroller and like I walked – I can’t even tell you how many kilometres I walked. I was probably like ready to run a marathon at the end of that
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