My Mother was watching my 3 1/2 year old daughter for a few hours while I took my 19 month old with me to a prenatal visit (I’m 35 1/2 weeks pregnant). While gone my Mother left my daughter alone on the main level of the house after making coffee. My Mother had gone to the upper level to have her coffee and smoke a cigarette (IN the house) which really upsets me. While gone my daughter managed to get into the kitchen make herself some toast (NOT allowed but she does know how) and tried to make herself a coffee like Grandma. My Mother came downstairs to my daughter screaming – she poured coffee all over herself and had red burned skin (won’t scar according to doctor). In the past 3 weeks WHILE my Mother was watching my children my son had taken Advil while she was smoking outside the car and he was INSIDE with his sister. She offered while I finished shopping for Easter stuff they can’t see. My daughter was beside me but her feet under the car and she started to drive away and ALMOST ran over her feet until she heard me screaming at the top of my lungs. She was dropping us off downtown because I needed to go out she offered to drive me one way. She “thought” she was on the other side of the stroller….WHY wouldn’t she look? I didn’t think she was leaving just yet because she fired up a cigarette and didn’t have the car started and it happened really fast! THEN the coffee thing today. I was called from my prenatal pre-admit clinic at the hospital TO emergency to find my daughter stripped to her underwear with cream all over her chest, face and arms and my Mother saying it wasn’t her fault it was only a second she went upstairs. She later admitted to the doctor she was playing an internet game and smoking. My Mother has watched my kids for an hour to a couple of hours before at a time and has never had a problem. All of a sudden this stuff starts happening! I live WITH my Mother because my husband is away in basic training in the military until the beginning of June, about 2 – 3 weeks after the baby is due to be born. My Mother offers occasionally to watch my kids and I’m afraid to let her, especially now! I am going to be taking my kids with me everywhere and doing everything including bathing with them. I don’t think she’s doing it on purpose, but I have no idea what else to think. She’s on no new medication (does take anxiety medication and medication to prevent depression) and it’s never been a problem before. All of a sudden she’s gone loopy or something. I didn’t tell my husband about the Advil or the car thing because I didn’t want to worry him and thought maybe they were just close calls, but the coffee thing ….I have to tell him about that. I have no other family to help me out and I am having a home birth (have to pre-admit at the hospital just in case I go in). My Grandmother and my sister will be here to watch the kids and my Mom will be with me when I have the baby. I’m afraid. I don’t know what’s going on, but what do I say when she wants to watch them or take them somewhere? It’s REALLY freaking me out! Moving out isn’t an option we have 7 weeks until we move where he’s posted and we can’t afford it nor will anyone rent to me for 7 weeks.

Hi, Just started taking Prenate Elite prenatal vitamins about a week ago. Since then I feel like a completely different person in a bad way. I have no energy, am very irritable and depressed. Before taking these I had energy and enthusiasm to go to the gym and just felt better. I do have problems with depression anyway so I don’t know if this is seasonal or because of the vitamins.

I have googled this and didn’t find anything definitive so I’m hoping you can help. Tomorrow I’m going to take the other store bought prenatal vitamin, just to see what happens. I’m not currently trying to conceive, but I would like to in the next 2 to 3 months.

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i am a 20 year old female, who is sexually active, but i do not need a child at this point in my life, nor am i trying to conceive. i am waaay too young in my opinion and i want to be married first. i am on depo-privera birth control, and just had myself checked, and i am not pregnant, nor am i having any symptoms thereof. i have recently been struggling with depression/anxiety and took some anti-psychotoics. now i am just on low prozac, hypo thyroid meds, zyrtec for allergies, and prenatal vitamins ( i will explain those).

despite my desire to NOT have a baby right now, i keep having vivid dreams, almost every night, about having a baby or being pregnant, or giving birth. of course, since i’ve never experienced any of that, the dreams can be kinda wacky, b/c i don’t know what to anticipate. for example: before i actually had sex for the first time, i would dream about “having sex” but me and the guy would just kinda lay on each other?? it’s like my mind tries to fill in the details about how a baby kicking inside would feel, morning sickness, birth, etc. the unfortunate thing is that the theme of the dreams is that 9/10 times i am a bad mother, or my baby dies, or i kill it by accident, or miscarry, or it’s abnormal severely, or it is a lifeless plastic doll and i have to earn the right for it to be a real child??? like i’m not worthy or something… and since it’s abnormal or dead, i either go to prison, a mental hospital, or my family shuns me. i wake up breathing hard, sometimes sweating, and sometimes in tears. it’s very disturbing and i am sick of it, quite frankly. do i just need to have a freakin baby and get it over with, or what? MAKE IT STOPPPP

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I had a dc done on oct 15 I lost a baby when I was 16 weeks pregnant and ever since then I been trying, I’m charting my bt and I calculating when I ovulate and I’m takin my prenatal vitamins and stop eating fast food. One thing is I never went back for a checkup since then since I feel like its my dr fault I lost it I been putting back on seeing the dr. I also feel into a depression so serious that I lost my government job can depression be a reason why I’m not getting pregnant are am I trying to hard are did something go wrong with the d and c help I’m going crazy
Thanks I am looking for a doctor as well but I want to go more naturally so I’m looking for a midwife around me.

I am a 31 year old woman. I have a 9 year old and a 4 month old. I had the baby blues 9 years ago when I had my first child. I then was put on depression meds. I have been on them since. I take Effexor XR 150mg daily. During my most recent pregnancy I took prenatal vitimans which are called Vinate II. My ob told me to finish up the bottle of those vitimans, I have been taking those daily for about 12 months. After I had my daughter I was having issues with my bladder not being strong so my ob had me start taking Oxybutynin, to help straighten the bladder muscles. I take 3, 5mg pills per day, and have been on them for about 3 months. A month ago I was Phentermine 37.5mg for weight loss. I have lost 11 lbs in a month. When it was given to me my blood pressure was slightly high. Doc told me that if I lose some weight hopefully it will go down. I have always had great pressure. I am a little over weight. As time has gone by since I had my most recent child I have had different things and feelings going on with my body. I will say, I know my depression is under control, as I know my body. Now I am experiencing headaches, tight and tense neck and shoulders, leg aches, tired in mid afternoon(even while I am on diet pill), and my mom mentioned that she can see yellowing of my skin below my eyes. NOT the whites of my eyes. I don’t see the yellowing. Any ideas on what could be the problem? I know going to the doctor would be a good idea but…I am a little nervous about that. When my recent child was 3 months old I went to him and asked for the diet pill and he said that he was concerned about giving it to me because of my depression. I felt that I want to get this baby weight off, as that is what would make me depressed! So I went to a weight loss clinic that gave me the meds. I have done a little research and haven’t found much about these meds haveing these types of side effects besides headaches. I am wondering maybe low iron? Maybe something happened when I had my daughter 4 months ago and it is finally catching up to me?? Any thoughts?? Thanks

Aggression, anxiety, Asperger syndrome, depression, attention-deficit disorder, and attachment disorder are all diagnoses which describe a(n):

A)
chromosomal deficiency.

B)
consequence of prenatal drug exposure.

C)
biological anomaly.

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Blood presser – Labetalol 300mg, am & 300mg pm

Hormone – Medroxypr ac 10mg, am, 10 days out of the month to start my period

Herb, Dong Quai root 2 am, 2 afternoon, 2 pm

Herb, Chaste tree berry, 40 drops, am, afternoon, pm

Sleeping- Benadryl 2-3 pm

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I’m 6 weeks on the way now for my second baby. I had my first 4 years ago. My mom loved my son so much but i feel that she hates my second child. She said she dont want to have another one due to financial crisis now a days. My husband had a small business and it is doing well. I’m just bothered with my mom. I’m on my prenatal so I feel so much depression and sadness on my mom’s reaction. What to do? Please help!
yah! you’re all probably right. Thanks guys!!! At least now I feel more releaved.

Has anyone experienced moodiness as a side effect while taking Omega 3 supplements?? I’m currently pregnant and started taking these a few days ago (while also taking my prenatal vitamins) and I’d get extremely moody and irritable.

I stopped today and I haven’t had any mood swings so far..I thought Omega 3 was known to ease down moodiness and help with bipolar/depression symptoms, but it seems to do the opposite for me. Has anyone experienced this?

For the past few days I have not had an appetite at all. I don’t eat much now…one meal a day, and some days nothing at all. I am drinking water and taking a prenatal vitamin because I am breastfeeding.
I have been dealing with postpartum depression and I am thinking that maybe this is the reason why I am not hungry?

However, today I have been extremely tired and dizzy and have a terrible headache…
What’s going on with me?