Article by Katie Pepper Morgan

At some point during a woman’s pregnancy, she has a 50% chance of experience morning sickness.

Everyday activities like eating are uncomfortable and hard to cope with due to morning sickness. Each woman will handle morning sickness differently and will find it affects them differently, regardless of how similar the symptoms seem. Here are some of the most common symptoms and options for dealing with them.

Did you know that sometimes prenatal vitamins can bring on your morning sickness symptoms. The reason for this isn’t widely known–it depends on the person. While some vitamins (like B6) can be helpful in treating your symptoms, other vitamins (like Iron) can bring on an attack. Body chemistry is very complicated and is more so during pregnancy. Unfortunately you can’t just stop taking your vitamins because you have nutritional needs that have to be met. For this reason, if you are experiencing serious morning sickness symptoms, you should ask your doctor about modifying your intake of vitamins.

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Article by Emely Porter

Inability to perform one’s own duties or to earn one’s own living is called disability. Various types of disabilities fall under the main categories of physical disability and mental disability. Physical disability can occur due to accidents at work places, accidents caused during travel or due to sudden illness such as paralysis. Mental disability can occur due to sudden mental shocks and various diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease that affect brain functioning.

Causes of disability can be classified as Perinatal (infections, premature infants, drugs during delivery and labor and oxygen deprivation), Prenatal (environmental causes such as alcohol, drugs, external agents, infections and maternal nutrition; maternal stress, Rh factor, genes, mother’s age, maternal diseases and chromosomal) and childhood (childhood diseases, injuries, environmental causes and Rh factor). The known reasons for disabilities include environmental, socio cultural, constitutional, or biomedical factors.

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Question by ♥Donato’s Mommy is expecting again♥: Did you suffer from prenatal depression?
Hello.
I think I’m suffering from prenatal depression.
How did you feel towards your unborn?
What thoughts or feelings did you have?
OR
If you suffered from Post natal depression how was it?

Thanks

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Article by Blake Wilson

If you’re pregnant – or ever have been – you may have wondered about the benefit and safety involved with a prenatal massage. You’re aware that the extra weight you’re carrying creates major changes in your body, especially the added stress on your abdominal muscles, shoulders, neck and back. It also affects your ligaments by relaxing them, making your pelvic joints less stable and changing your posture by pulling your pelvis forward.

Before you consider including it in your pregnancy health routine, do some research to insure that the massage therapist you choose is trained in prenatal massage techniques, not just massage methods. A prenatal massage is effective because it involves the right amount of pressure… using the right technique… at the right stage in the pregnancy, so you need an expert.

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“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” Teenagers find it very difficult to face depression. Energy level and enthusiasm is lost in this period, so teenagers build an irritable nature and become short tempered. Mostly when parents notice the hostile behavior of a child, they neglect it as normal rebelling.  This may aggravate the seriousness of depression. If this nature continues for more than two or three weeks, you have to visit your psychiatrist.

It is observed that in the most cases of teenage suicide that parents, teachers and friends do not realize that the child is depressed. The changes in behavior are treated in the worst possible way, like scolding of parents, separation from friends’ circle and punishment from teachers. So, such teens become hopeless and develop serious clinical depression, which may end in suicide.

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Throughout the past 33 years in private practice, hundreds of women have told me they felt that their current health problems started soon after the birth of their child. The child may have been her first or fifth, and might now be a teenager or even a grown man or woman, but the mother remembers the postpartum onset of her symptoms as if it were yesterday.

The symptoms that usually start within the first to twelfth postpartum months vary widely among mothers. A few of the most common are despondency and despair, chronic fatigue, sleeplessness, anxiousness, lack of confidence, loss of sex drive and passion, muscle and joint pains, unhealthy skin, hair and nails, digestive disturbances, bladder problems, heart disease, trouble breathing, and a host of troubling emotions and moods swings. A woman can be puzzled, frustrated, even embarrassed when she reveals symptoms that have plagued her for years. She may have shared her self–observations with doctors only to find that they were not worthy of an acknowledgment or comforting comment from her physician. Any attempt on her part to connect the birth of one of her children with those symptoms may have been met with skepticism or passed over. Yet, she can’t shake the feeling that something about that particular birth began her health decline.

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Question by Rowda: Prenatal depression and husband is unhelpful?
There seem to be no one to talk to. I’ve been put on a very small dose of fluoxetine 2.5mg but I still feel very depressed. What is the highest dose someone can take on antidepressants whilst pregnant. I have tried without no medication for the first four months of my pregnancy but I don’t think that I can go any further with out medical help.

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The most common question that pregnant women ask me is “My obstetrician says that it is very dangerous for me to take vitamin A while I’m pregnant. As an expert in nutrition, what is your opinion?”

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I’m not in the military so I wouldn’t know. I have had this friend for seventeen years. In fact, he and his children reside in my family’s home. His ex-wife-a neglectful mother can’t seem to get over their ended marriage, and started BCT the other week. Two and a half years ago, she requested a divorce the day he came home on leave from Iraq, seven and a half months later, three days after the end of his tour, she left a suicide not out(in her mother’s home) overdosed on pills was found and had to go to the emergency room. Then she left the note out for days for her divorcing spouse to see it(conveniently enough). She used to physically attack him and call the mps when they lived on base-she harassed me multiple times out of paranoia. She was on depression meds before and she concealed the entire pregnancy with their second child, getting no prenatal care, attempting to do things like exert herself during the last trimester to force a miscarriage and binge-drink vodka a bunch of times in the last trimester at Ft. Stewart in front of her husband who didn’t know she was pregnant(but she did). Maybe this belongs in psychology. I haven’t had anything to say about the extreme absurdity of the situation. He is like a battered woman though-he is so used to the extreme violence(chasing with a knife, wrapping a cord around his neck while laying in bed, punching in face,etc.) that he doesn’t see these other things as big deals-like her returning his children dirty and un-bathed(even though she seldom has them). When I say she concealed an entire pregnancy(which less than 1% of women do-this is more infrequent than child molestation), she even moved back to Ca during his deployment and didn’t tell her identical twin with whom she is close and lived with about the pregnancy-just popped out a baby one day, and he was forced to explain this to his commanding officers. I’m not going to talk about the other things, but do you ever see this in the Army? People that appear to have mental health issues and history of violence, joining the military for attention? It just seems a little scary, but again, maybe this ? is better in Psychology? She calls him crying about her job, her sad, childhood, her sad life, etc. Do people like this make it through Boot? Does the Army help get people the emotional help they may need un Basic? I used to help with the children but I had to quit because the whole thing started seeming a little weirder and weirder.
Oh, and we don’t know who the father of that baby is(who poor thing, now had major behavioral problems maybe from the alcohol) because the pregnancy followed an adulterous affair she had while spouse was deployed.

Post partum depression is a condition that manifests itself in women following the birth of a child. The most notable symptoms experienced by sufferers of post partum depression include sleeping disturbances, recurrent sadness, loss of appetite, loss of energy, hopelessness, frustration, exhaustion, guilt, low self esteem, social withdrawal, and many other negative experiences.

Although much time and effort has been expended trying to unlock the secrets of this condition, no definitive single factor can be identified that in itself leads to post partum depression. Several issues have been singled out as important factors that contribute in part to the condition. These include prenatal depression, lack of self esteem, prenatal anxiety, and chronic conflict with a spouse.

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