The About to be a mom gift guide

What we wish we would have known about BEFORE we went to the hospital. Or before we got home even.

Frida Mom Mesh Unides

Ok, in case you missed the post, and you might want to sit down for this, you are going to bleed for SIX WEEKS postpartum. Minimum. You’re going to have to wear pads the entire time. And at the beginning especially, you’ll want to wear mesh undies that are comfortable and can contain the massive pad you’ll be wearing.

What always annoyed us is how medical it all felt. We just wanted to feel normal and wear normal underwear.

Enter Frida Mom Mesh Undies.

Frida Mom Cooling Pads

The first few days postpartum are painful in ways you probably didn’t imagine. Tears or no tears (we don’t mean crying here, we mean vaginal or cervix tears - yes, you can freak out now), you’re going to be sore and you’re going to want some comfort.

These cooling pads help ease the pain and also collect “the house” your baby has been living in for 10 months. Double duty. We dig it.

Soft, Stretchy PJs

Once you’ve done it, you’ve given birth, you may feel like you’ve crossed a finish line. And in a way you have, but you’ve also just started another marathon. Psychologically that can be really difficult to come to terms with. You want your body back, you want to feel like your old self, but also this little bundle of joy and cuteness is just too much.

That’s why we love these PJs. We felt fashionable and comfortable and could breastfeed easy, but still looked kind of like our old selves.

It’s pretty complex emotions around a set of PJs, but hopefully you get it.

Soothing Eye Patches

This won’t be a surprise; you’re not going to get a lot of sleep those first few days (weeks? months? years? let us know when it ends cause we can’t wait) so you’re going to want a way to do some easy self care.

This is our answer. We love these eye patches to the moon and back.

Frida Mom Peri Bottle

This is another “I can’t believe I need this” item. Like actually cannot believe.

The hospital will most likely issue you a bottle to help clean your vagina/labia postpartum. And it’ll work, but the angle will be a bit tough depending on how birth went.

Oh, we should mention, a peri bottle is used every time you go to the bathroom to clean your vagina/labia of the blood that you’re discarding postpartum. It’s how you’ll stay clean and sanitary. We want to avoid any infections.

Frida Mom upgrades your life with this peri bottle.

Therapeutic Breast Pads

If you decide to breast feed, your boobs are going to be sore from improper expressing, the fact that a little human is sucking on your nipple, and a myriad of other issues you may come across.

These heating/cooling therapeutic breast pads help ease any of these uncomfortable scenarios.

Silk Pillowcase

By now you probably know the following facts:

1. You’re not going to get a lot of sleep.

2. You’re not going to have a lot of personal time.

That means you’re going to need to surround yourself with products that multitask for you.

This silk pillowcase does that for your face and hair. And any bit of self care is a MUST.

Breast Pads

Should you decide to breastfeed, you’re going to end up leaking….A LOT. You leak when you feed the baby (out of the breast they’re not feeding on). You leak when your baby cries. Shit, you leak when any baby cries.

These breast pads are a comfortable, easy, and eco friendly way of containing the milk.