Did you ever get hit with the “ Don’t forget to eat!” advice from other moms? 

I know I laughed it off.

“Ha! I never forget about food,” I said.

Fast forward to me laying in bed healing a c-section scar, making it difficult to get up and down, a new baby who is always hungry, two dogs confused and always staring at you and the chores around the house starting to pile up. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

CUE THE OVERWHELM

Typically, the first six weeks can be easy to forget to eat. Your body is healing which means you need to rest and eat “healthy healing foods” but let us be honest, cooking is the last thing on my mind. My husband is the king DoorDash orderer and so that’s what we relied on. 

For me, emotional eating became a problem once I was mostly healed (8 weeks for a c-section) I was breastfeeding for the first time and I was anxious about everything. In the spare moments I had for myself when I finally soothed a screaming baby and got him down in his bassinet after the 8th time of...