Through balanced meals and nutritional supplements, mothers ensure the healthy development of their children

Nevena Rendeli Vejzović: "Babies progress really fast. After three months, everything is much easier - we sleep more and play more." 

Just like during pregnancy, planning balanced meals is a challenge for all mothers after childbirth. The mother's body also needs folic acid after giving birth, just like iron, calcium, vitamins C and D, and omega-3 fatty acids.

Nevena je također svjesna važnosti koju njen plan prehrane ima za rast i razvoj njenih blizanki. U sklopu kampanje za zdravu trudnoću koju provodi Almagea, Nevena otkriva da i nakon tri mjeseca i dalje uzima dodatne količine omega-3 masnih kiselina kroz dodatke prehrani. Opisuje i period novog života s bebama tri mjeseca nakon poroda.

"Mothers of newly born children, I have good news! After your baby is three months old, everything becomes easier. I believe that I am not the first to reveal warm water to you, but as a mother who until the other day (night) struggled with chronic insomnia, crying all day, cramps and problems with breastfeeding, I hope it sounds relieving to you. I didn't believe it either when they told me it would be like that and I didn't manage to get an hour of sleep at night and while it seemed to me that the vicious circle was gone end and that I will never sleep and shower in peace again. 

And then slowly, not all at once, it just got easier. And not only because of the mother's seniority, everything really somehow fell into place. First, my girlfriends started communicating with me. I'm not kidding, they're not so advanced that they started talking, although sometimes I thought I heard voices in the middle of the night, but they laughed.

They would look at me and laugh at me so happily that my motherly heart leapt with happiness. Likewise, they started showing me when they were sad or angry, or when something didn't suit them, and I realized that the period of constantly asking themselves and others, what the hell is wrong with them, is finally behind us. The period of only sleeping and eating ended and they became more awake in the periods in between. Of course, immediately eager to play. Although at first I didn't know what to do with them, luckily there are all those aids for babies like the baby gym and other miracles.

They first reacted to the big red-black toys. Experts say that they are first interested in those bright colors. Then they slowly started to follow the merry-go-round above the crib, and now we are already playing with rattles. Just a little more and we'll put the leggings together. I'm joking, of course, but only now have I become aware of how quickly time passes and how quickly they progress. It seems incredible to me from the perspective of a new mother who came home from the hospital with two bundles weighing barely two kilos each.

And our nights are longer now, in my case it means four awakenings, but I assume that for mothers with one baby it is at least twice as many. Soon, in about a month and a half, we will also introduce supplementary food in the form of porridge. For now, it is important that the mother gets enough omega-3 through food supplements or diet so that the babies thrive. And the spasms slowly disappeared. Admittedly, they warn me, there will soon be a problem called teething, but after these first three months I have a feeling that everything will be easier. Even now, the mothers of older children are probably laughing sweetly at me. But it doesn't matter, hope dies last!"