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Ashley Grahamis sitting in the bathroom at her New York apartment, eating lamb meatball stew.
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He’s teething like crazy, so it’s rough out here, she tells SELF over the phone.
I was like, you know what?
Im going to be walking through my nightly routine, so I might as well be in my bathroom.
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Season two of Grahams online workout series,Thank Bod, premieredon YouTube today.
My husband shot the whole thing, she says.
This is really just him and I doing this together, and making it work.
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The series consists of five 15-minute workouts, created by trainerKira Stokesand modeled by Graham.
Graham and her family spent the first six months of theCOVID-19pandemic hunkered down in Nebraska.
They recently returned to their home in New York City.
Every day is different: some days shes on set, and others shes Zooming from home.
But it feels so good to be back in New York.
He usually just goes straight to sleep, so then it’s my time.
We’ll read a little book.
It just kind of depends on what mood he’s in.
He has a full-on library.
And then he will go to bed after I feed him.
I attempt to get his belly to be really full.
I worked with this amazing woman who has a book calledTheSleepeasy Solution.
Her name is Jill [Spivack].
All kinds of things are happening that are so good for you.
When I looked at it as sleep learning instead of sleep training, all my defenses came down.
I was like, “Oh, yeah.
My kid actually needs this.
And sure enough, within three days, he took to it.
I pop him on the boob, and he eats.
He’s still nursing a lot, and we’re incorporating a lot of solids now.
He never wakes up.
He just eats for probably five to eight minutes.
This is so mind-blowing to me.
She said, “No, he’s not gonna wake up.”
I’m like, “Okay.”
He never wakes up.
It’s really cool.
So I have until 8:00 to 10:30 to do me.
After I feed him at 10:30, I wanna go to bed.
I usually pop in the shower.
I don’t do a long drawn-out shower.
I feel like I’m still hydrated the next day.
So, boom, I do that, then I take care of my face.
My mom has it, so I guess it’s hereditary.
What really happened [after pregnancy] was myhairline fell out, like all my edges.
And so I’ve been usingKerastase Initialiste Advanced Scalp & Hair Serum.
[Kerastase] also gave me this product calledGenesis.
So I put that stuff on my hair.
A friend was telling me to put castor oil and canola oil in my roots as well.
So I’m about to try all the things.
So I’m definitely in that awkward teenage stage right now with my hair.
And then I always, always, always drinkNatural Vitality Calm.
It’s 100% magnesium.
Orange is my favorite flavor.
[Justin] is usually getting himself together, too.
I’m a morning person, he’s a night person.
So this is where he gets creative and he wants to write, and read, and create.
And I’m like, “I am tired.”
In the evenings, I don’t pump.
If I’m with him, then that’s the only pumping I do for the day.
But if I’m not with him, then I’m pumping, like, every three hours.
Milan was my first trip away from Isaac.
And I have to say, it was a vacation.
It was not what I was expectingit really wasn’t.
In eight months, I hadn’t left his side longer than five hours.
And I was really nervous, like, can I do this?
You know, other mothers have done it.
They leave their babies even earlier.
I was like, “Am I gonna feel guilty?”
But I didn’t feel guilty because I knew that I was going for work.
Those four days went by so fast.
So I’d be like, “Oh, I’m pumping!
This is milk for my baby.”
And they’re like, “Oh.”
So they’re like, “Oh, you’re pumping.
Are you pumping and dumping?
Are you FedExing your milk?”
But it’s a wild ride, for sure.
So the phone stays in the bathroom, and that was a really big deal for me.
I dont use social media before bed anymore.
And you know what?
It really helps your mind.
My husband jumped onto the bandwagon, which was really helpful.
So we kind of look at each other crooked, like, “You brought your phone to bed?
What are you thinking?”
We have a sound machine.
I cannot sleep without the sound machine, ear plugs that are custom-made, and my mouth guard.
I’ve beengrindingsince the late ’90s.
But apparently as they get older, they get more independent, and I’m very excited about that.
But I never was settled in who I was until I was okay with me.
Well, it hasn’t.
So that’s a lie.
If anybody tells you that that happened to them, good for them.
It didn’t happen to me.
It’s a lot of stress.
I keep telling everybody, “If I can do it, you could do it.”
I’m doing modifications right now, because that’s just where I am right now.
