Stress and anxieties are common factors that are very closely related to pregnancy. During pregnancy, lots of changes take place within the body due to the fluctuating hormonal levels. Added with excitement, fear and sometimes unwanted situations in personal life the stress levels are difficult to control, and too much of stress affects adversely the baby in the womb sometimes resulting in disasters. As the completion of the pregnancy nears, stress and worries will be following in series unless it is tackled efficiently from the beginning.

Yoga can do wonders!

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Everytime me and my girlfriend do anything at all sexual I think she is going to get pregnant,even if I use a condom or I ejaculate nowhere near her vagina,how can I help this?

I appreciate any advice you have. I have been on Paxil for 4.5 years now. I began getting horrible panic attacks after the birth of my daughter, plus I was stressed as my now ex-husband lost his job and I learned he was doing drugs. I was on Paxil before my daughter was born(not during pregnancy) because I was having severe panic attacks. I had switched from Buspar, which made me feel like a complete zombie.
So when my daughter reached 3 months(she is now 4.5 years old), I began having those panic attacks again. My dr. put me on Paxil again, and I have been on it for over 4 years now. Good news, no panic attacks, but I feel like its not helping my depression. I am also on Welbutrin, 300 mg a day for depression and I was trying to quit smoking on it, which sadly, I did for awhile, then I am back on them. I still suffer from depression, and probably always will. Can a medication stop being effective after so long? Is there another depression med that I should try?

We’ve been wanting to have a baby for 4 years already and nothing :’(
Everybody I know comes and breaks their pregnancy news to me and I cry out of both joy (for them) and sadness (for me). OMG, 4 years and we can’t! Every single friend of mine is happily married with children, now my sister just had her first baby and she’s only 21, I’m already 23 going on 24 in Aug.
Is there any other way of finding out besides spending a fortune at the doctor?

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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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I am 35 weeks along and I have ZERO energy left. Between that and the fact that me and dh are fighting all the time lately I have no energy to clean. I’m just sick of it. So much for my “nesting” instinct. I’m just too depressed to clean and wonder if anyone else feels this way. To top it off my husbands friend was over last night and went on about what a supermom his wife was “She works and still cooks and cleans the house!” he exclaimed proudly. I felt like such crap. I feel like I’m a failure already and I haven’t even gotten started. Being so down lately I just can’t seem to muster the energy to do much of anything. I’m not a lazy person by nature but lately I am REALLY lazy. How can I get my energy back. I think depression is sucking what energy I have left out of me. It doesn’t help that I am going through my second pregnancy back to back. I also have a 10 1/2 month old daughter to care for.
How can “flylady” help me when I simply have no energy to do it? I feel down because I am arguing all the time with my husband and also because I am physically drained from the pregnancy. My motivation is ZERO. I feel like I’m just existing..

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.