Erin Foster Admits She Was Unsure About Hiring a Baby Nurse After Welcoming Daughter — but She's Been a 'Godsend'
The 'Nobody Wants This' creator shares her daughter with husband Simon Tikhman
Erin Foster is opening up about her decision to hire a baby nurse.
Appearing on the Ladygang podcast, the Nobody Wants This creator, 42, was asked about who she can rely on as she balances being a first-time mom to her baby daughter Noa, whom she welcomed in May, and her career as a writer and podcaster.
"I had wondered if I shouldn't get a baby nurse at all because I was, like, doing this all-natural. I did a home birth. I was, like, embarking on things in a different way, and I was like, maybe I wanna cosleep. Maybe I wanna sleep with my baby on my boob and, like, be like a hippie and everything. Anyway, a lot of moms were like, you're not gonna wanna do that, and they were right," Foster begins.
"We had a baby nurse starting two weeks after she was born. She came two weeks early, so our baby nurse was like, I'm not available. I'm booked. I live in New York."
The new mom says while wasn't sure she needed a baby nurse at first, having the nurse helped her learn more about becoming a mom.
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"So I have my daughter, and I think that really what happens I mean, I guess it's maybe it's different for everyone, but for me, what happened when I got help, was that you learn a lot from this person," she says.
"There is not this, like, maternal instinct that kicks in where you know when you're supposed to breastfeed or when you're supposed to pump or when they should wake up or if is that cry because she has gas? If she has gas, what do I do about it?"
"There's so many questions and it's so overwhelming that for me, it felt like a godsend to have someone there that made you feel like your baby's not gonna die and that you're not doing a terrible job, and it's just overwhelming," Foster shares.
Saying that being a new mom is the "job of 10 people," Foster says her baby nurse was "just phenomenal" and finished up a few days ago. Now, she and her husband have hired a nanny to help out around the house.
"I'm doing a press junket in here all day long. She met my baby yesterday and for the first time ever. And so when I hear her crying in the other room and, like, my boobs are pulsing and I'm in an interview and there's no one to calm her down, I don't know what to do," Foster jokes. "I don't know what to do. It’s a s--- show."
Foster shared in May that she'd welcomed her first baby with Tikhman, posting a series of photos from her home birth and describing the baby's delivery as "truly the most insane experience of my life, with the best ending."
"Noa Mimi Tikhman being nothing like her mother who is always late, arrived two weeks early. Being totally unbiased I would say she’s perfect and super advanced already, and might be the first person I’ve met who prefers me to Simon," she wrote in the caption of the post.
"Gave birth to her au naturale in our bed like a beast, but also would have taken heroine in the moment if someone offered. Simon would like everyone to know he’s a warrior too ❤️," she added, jokingly referring to photos within the carousel showing her husband pouring a glass of wine during the labor proceedings.
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