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Gwyneth On Postpartum

Eliza Ferree — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:57:30 +0000

It is strange that some of us can go without ever realizing we ever had postpartum, but it does happen. Think back right after you had your child, did you go through any period of depression/sadness/anger? Maybe it seemed small or trivial to you but it could’ve been postpartum. Many will miss the symptoms because they just classify it as having a baby.

In the May issue of Vogue, Gwyneth Paltrow will come forward about having a case of http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351521,00.html“>postpartum after giving birth to Moses.

“I felt really out of my body,” Paltrow says after giving birth. “I felt really disconnected. I felt really down … I felt pessimistic.”

If you are currently feeling like this and can’t seem to shake it you may want to seek some help/guidance. Even talking with a spouse or family friend can help you with this. Don’t feel that it is a bad thing you are experiencing this, this does NOT make you a bad mother, many of us go through this. Did you deal with postpartum depression of any sort? What would you like to say?

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Last Day for Poll Question

Eliza Ferree — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:35:37 +0000

Did you deal with weight issues after you had your child? Today is the last day to answer, if you haven’t already please do so. There’ll be a lot of talk on weight and many posts from moms that wrote in about their weight issues. Stay tuned. In case you aren’t aware, the poll is in the sidebar. Post from: Babylune

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All Missions are Possible

kate baggott — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:01:44 +0000

Cue the theme music.

Now, picture me as a female Tom Cruise except I’m taller and my performance is less wooden. My long hair is tied back in a pony tail, sweat glistens on my brow as – under the punishing desert sun – I climb up the face of a cliff without a safety harness…

Of course, I have a diaper bag strapped to my back and, if needed, I can nurse while hanging onto the cliff by my toes even while my 4 year-old is pulling onto the straps of the diaper bag and shouting, “Mummy, I want some gummy bears right now!”

These are, more or less, the conditions under which most women recover from childbirth.

There have been some big changes at B5 Media and we’ve all been challenged to write a mission statement about our blogs.

This entry is mine.

My goal in writing Babylune is to encourage every new mother to do at least one thing to protect her own health and well being each day.

Not only do your children need a strong healthy mother. You need to be able to rely on your body to perform all the tasks demanded of you. More importantly, when you can’t perform all those tasks, you need to be able to rely on your psyche to say “OK, enough. I can’t do anything more right now. I need a break”

According to all my research, the first six weeks after giving birth are the most important to a mother’s recovery, but that the a full recovery can take up to 40 weeks…roughly the same length of time as the average pregnancy. If you’re a new mother who happens to be sitting down while she reads this, chances are that you are at least ten days post partum. If you’re less than that, I hope you’ve got a donut ring or at least a very soft pillow on your chair because I promise to be as thorough, as accurate and as entertaining as I can while you go through all the typical (and less typical) postpartum stuff.

Because, as I’ve always said, if you can’t be cool, you’d better be honest.

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