THE WEEKLY MOCHA MANUAL MINUTE FOR THE "MOCHA MOM TO BE"

THE WEEKLY MOCHA MANUAL MINUTE FOR THE "NEW MOCHA MOMMY"

You want to be empowered with trusted information on healthy babies and a healthy you! The Mocha Manual has it covered.

Pick up The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy for our hearty Appendix chock full of helpful resources on everything from hypnobirthing to finding household help and from fixing your relationship to fixing your finances.

In the meantime, check out some
of our favorite links:

ACOG
American College of
Obstetricians and
Gynecologists

The Black Women's Health Imperative

Mahogany Baby

NIH
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development

NUFF
National Uterine Fibroids
Foundation

The Preeclampsia Foundation

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Pregnancy Loss

U. S. Department of Health & Human Services, Minority
Women's Health

WHANJ
Women’s Health Alliance of NJ

Women of Color OB GYN

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FAMILY FINANCES

From the time that you pee on the stick and that blue line appears, your life is forever changed. Your thinking must change, you habits must change, and your priorities must change. Just as eating the proper diet helps produce a healthy baby, changing your financial habits can yield positive financial fruit – like a debt-free life, money to invest in your and your child’s future, and financial peace of mind. You can use your pregnancy time to reduce expenses and to change your spending habits so that when baby arrives, you have more financial freedom to work less and mother more.

The first step in any financial plan is self-evaluation: recognizing your desires and goals. Ask yourself whether staying home beyond your company maternity leave is important to you. Other times, there may be some ways to at least delay your return to work, especially since many

companies are now offering some component of an unpaid leave to mothers.

Ask yourself, what are my spending habits and how may these be detrimental to my goals? Think of ways to trim the fat in your budget and create the worst-case scenario of identifying the least amount of money you can get by on during any given month. Then you can use strategies, like those found in Chapter 12 of The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy to slash costs and release hidden cash. The final part of the baby preparation plan used in The Mocha Manual involves specific financial planning strategies that all pregnant women should undertake. These include assessing your life insurance, starting a college fund, creating a will and developing a systematic savings plan. Ready to get started? Stay tuned for more tips. And check out The Mocha Manual for more advice on new baby finances.