No matter how prepared you think you are, being a new mom can be totally overwhelming. There's just so much to learn and figure out. The first few months after giving birth to your first child is truly a roller coaster, full of so many ups and downs. Honestly, at feels like as soon as you think you understand something about caring for your baby, something changes and you're back to square one. And sometimes, not a book or blog in the world has the answer. But often, our mamis and abuelas do actually have the best advice for new moms.
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There's definitely value in professional opinions about raising babies, but sometimes it's the little tricks that the moms who came before us picked up along the way that can help the most. It may be easy to brush off the advice of mami and abuela when there's a plethora of modern advice from strangers and more experienced friends and acquaintances out there on the internet, but we shouldn't be so quick to write off the knowledge of the ones who raised us. In honor of our own Latina mamis and abuelas we're sharing some of the best advice we received from them as first-time moms.