You’ve Got 5 Options is a biweekly Radio Talk Show, hosted by two childhood friends, who once had a DD (“Drunken Dream”) of starting a podcast with a mission to help people getting out of seemingly hopeless situations.
Our specialty is solving real life challenges of our listeners. For each problem we receive, we provide five different solutions to chose from (which means, that over the past 3 years, we have come up with at least 500 different options!)
Join us if you want to learn about alternative problem-solving techniques and listen to our extraordinary and unorthodox guests. And if you’d like us to solve your problem, don’t hesitate to contact us
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You’ve Got 5 Options is a biweekly Radio Talk Show, hosted by two childhood friends, who once had a DD (“Drunken Dream”) of starting a podcast with a mission to help people getting out of seemingly hopeless situations.
Our specialty is solving real life challenges of our listeners. For each problem we receive, we provide five different solutions to chose from (which means, that over the past 3 years, we have come up with at least 500 different options!)
Join us if you want to learn about alternative problem-solving techniques and listen to our extraordinary and unorthodox guests. And if you’d like us to solve your problem, don’t hesitate to contact us
Ep 164: Challenge from the listener: How to survive newborn baby crisis?
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Ep 164: Challenge from the listener: How to survive newborn baby crisis?
Challenge description:
"I've become a mom two weeks ago. My son is lovely and sweet and I can watch him for hours. Unfortunately, not everything is as great as I wish to admit.
For the past couple of days, it's been really tough. I thought I will be more or less physically recovered by now, but I'm still in quite some pain. I visited the doctor and he told me that I should take it easy and take the bed rest. This is the first time I feel like I'm resting since we had the baby because there's always sooo much to do.
I and my husband are getting into a crisis mode a couple of times a day, every day. The baby is not sleeping in the night. He cries a lot. Doctors are saying it's because of tummy pain. He can be up for three hours in a row throughout the night time. I can see he's in pain and my heart breaks, three minutes in - and I cry with him. We are slowly learning some techniques to help him out; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So the nights are the worst. My husband can somehow come up with more practical approaches and calm our son down but I feel useless.
What would you advise us to do, so we can cope better?
PS: We are both foreigners in a country we live in and due to travel restrictions we cannot count on family support in the immediate future"
Option 1: Let Go of ALL Expectations and “Let It Be”
Option 2: Follow the Baby
Options 3: Take care of yourself
Options 4: Ask For Help
Options 5: Survive it aka the autopilot mode, and remember “This too shall pass”
If all fails, check yourself (and your partner) for postnatal depression - Check episode Ep 129: The Kimberleys, Urban Legends And Can Men Suffer From Postpartum Depression (With Judy Wanijku Jørgensen)?
You've Got 5 Options
You’ve Got 5 Options is a biweekly Radio Talk Show, hosted by two childhood friends, who once had a DD (“Drunken Dream”) of starting a podcast with a mission to help people getting out of seemingly hopeless situations.
Our specialty is solving real life challenges of our listeners. For each problem we receive, we provide five different solutions to chose from (which means, that over the past 3 years, we have come up with at least 500 different options!)
Join us if you want to learn about alternative problem-solving techniques and listen to our extraordinary and unorthodox guests. And if you’d like us to solve your problem, don’t hesitate to contact us
