The Organized Home for New Parents: Create Routine-Ready Spaces for Your Baby's First Years - Couverture rigide

Safford, Ría

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ISBN 10 : 1958803049 ISBN 13 : 9781958803042

Editeur : Blue Star Press, 2023

Synopsis

“A must-have for any new or expecting parent." —Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Learn how to safely and conveniently prepare your home for life with a baby or toddler

As a new or expecting parent, you’re bombarded with seemingly endless advice—from how to nurse or feed your child to how to sleep and potty train them. But conventional guidance misses a crucial aspect of the early years of parenting: how to organize your home for life with your little one.

From dirty dishes piling up to heaps of new toys and clothes in every corner of your home, life with young kids can be, well, a lot. Thankfully celebrity organizing expert and mom of three Ría Safford is here to help. After learning and mastering her own systems of home organization, she has made a career out of helping parents create functional, routine-ready spaces to make more time for what matters most.

In The Organized Home for New Parents, you’ll learn how to:

• Prioritize the newborn necessities you’ll need—with easy checklists and charts 
• Organize your nursery, stroller, and diaper bag 
• Make breastfeeding, pumping, and solid food prep more manageable 
• Set up diaper-changing and feeding stations throughout the home 
• Cycle clothes, toys, and other items out of the home as your child grows 
• Arrange your spaces to easily reset them when messes take over 
• Tackle the growing pile of laundry 
• Prepare for travel and life on the go with babies and toddlers

Featuring gorgeous illustrations and photos from inside real families’ homes, this practical guide for new parents is the perfect baby shower present or gift for new parents. With equal parts humor, candor, and insight, this book will be your lifeline through this hectic, unpredictable season of life and empower you to create a safe, organized, and comfortable home for your growing family.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ría Safford is a Cuban-American mom of three. She is the founder and CEO of RiOrganize, a company offering full-service organization, design, and space planning to families across the United States. Ría has organized spaces for A-list clients like Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ciara, and Jen Atkin and for everyday families who are desperate for more streamlined systems in their homes. Ria’s own organization journey began when she became a new mom and felt overwhelmed by all the mess accumulating in her house. She set out to calm the chaos and help families everywhere reduce stress and create routine-ready spaces that would make managing life with little ones easier. In 2022, Ría partnered with U Brands for a product line at Target that was featured on endcaps in 820 stores. She has also partnered with dozens of other companies including Michaels, Ziploc, iDesign, Apartments.com, and more. Ría has 324K+ fans following her on Instagram for organization inspiration and advice.

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I’m a messy person at heart: tidiness and organization never came naturally to me. It wasn’t until after I’d given birth to my first child that I truly understood the impact of an organized home. I was twenty-four years old and newly married when Landry came into the picture—thrusting us headlong into the whirlwind of parenthood a full nineteen days early. Needless to say, I wasn’t prepared. The reality is that most of us aren’t when we become parents. Whether you’re a first- time parent or this is your second, third, or fourth go at this, you know how truly unpredictable life becomes with a new baby. Then comes all the shit . . . clothes, toys, baby bouncers, blankets, strollers, cribs, car seats, bottles, and, of course, diapers—and all the actual poop that can seem endless with little kids. All of the sudden, my life was a mess—a beautiful mess, but a mess. As the utter chaos of everyday life spilled into my home, I felt as if I was drowning in the middle of it all.

The disaster state of my home spread to all areas of my life. I was flailing as a mom, a wife, and an employee. I imagine that most new parents have had that feeling—like you’re dropping all the balls at once, and that you’re letting everyone down. After a week of sleepless nights, fighting to make it from one sunrise to the next, I had finally hit my breaking point. I remember the moment so clearly: it was two o’clock in the morning when I woke to Landry’s hunger cries and her blowout diaper. Frantically trying to navigate her nursery in the dark, I couldn’t find anything I needed: wipes, diapers, a clean onesie, fresh sheets, you name it. I was trying to live this new chapter the way I had lived the previous one—flying by the seat of my pants—and it wasn’t working. I broke. I woke up Conner, hysterical and falling apart. Not only did I think I would never sleep again, but I also felt that I had failed everyone and everything.

At that moment, I decided I needed to prioritize organization at home if I wanted to keep my life on track. I’ve shared this part of my journey to convey that it doesn’t matter whether organization comes naturally to you. You can start from anywhere, and you might be surprised where you land. My own experience inspired me to start a business and ultimately to write a guide to organizing specifically for you: expecting parents and those in the beginning stages of raising young kids. This phase in a family’s lives can be the most challenging, and it requires tricks unique to streamlining a home when babies (and all their stuff and schedules) become a huge part of the daily routine. Organizational systems can be learned, mastered, and implemented in your everyday life, making your days more purposeful and less stressful, which allows you to be the best version of yourself. I am here to help you bring those systems into your own life.

I am Ría Safford, mother of three (Landry, Sawyer, and Jack), wife to my proud Texan husband, Conner, and the CEO and founder of RíOrganize, a professional home organization and relocation company. In addition to thousands of families like yours and mine all over the country, we have helped organize spaces for Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Emmy winners; Hall of Fame athletes, Olympians, CEOs, billionaires, and industry leaders. Pinch me! Ten years ago, never would I have thought—especially when I was still shoving all the contents of my messy room into an overstuffed closet before guests came over—that so many successful people would entrust me with their home organization goals. That’s right, I went from being the captain of the Hot Mess Express to organizing for the world’s elite in just seven years. And in this book, I share all my tips, tricks, and secrets to set you up for success.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blue Star Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1958803049
• ISBN 13: 9781958803042
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible