People spend New Year’s Eve reflecting on their past year. What do they remember most? How do they remember it? As an adult, most of my memories are visual and emotional, the emotions coming from sights and sounds – a flurry of colour, music, shouting, crying, laughing. But when I look back on my childhood [...]
It has been found that there are a number of benefits of eating one’s placenta, otherwise known as placentophagy. These include warding off postpartum depression (PPD), replacing lost nutrients, increasing energy, replacing hormones, aiding the onset of lactation, and reducing postpartum blood loss by stimulating the uterus to contract back to its original size. There [...]
This is post #2 in my Mental Health and Breastfeeding series. The other posts can be found here, here and here. In her article Does breastfeeding really protect against postpartum depression? Lauren Hale from the Atlanta Northside New Moms Examiner discusses one study’s findings that postpartum depression is the result of biochemical hormonal changes in the postpartum period. [...]
Today I am honoured to have a guest post from Jennifer at Barely Knit Together. As some of you know I am in the process of applying for my Masters in Social Work. My goal is to work with in psychiatry (my career background before I became a mom) specifically with women and families. I’d [...]
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Welcome to the October Carnival of Breastfeeding. The theme this month is “What I wish I knew then.” Make sure you check out the other carnival participant posts linked at the bottom of this one. They will be updated throughout the day. I wish I knew that cracked and bleeding nipples weren’t something a breastfeeding [...]
The first time I saw a BellaBand it was love at first sight. I was done having kids and at my local maternity shop, shopping for someone else. I saw the BellaBand in the window and wondered why I missed out on such a great product with my pregnancies. I sent a love letter to [...]
I’ve been contemplating writing this since I started my blog back in January. It’s such a personal story, not many of our closest friends even know all the gory details, so to put it out there for the world to read is a big deal. I decided to write this story for the blog because [...]
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