Posts by animommy

I bought Mindful Birthing this weekend.  Wow - it's the mindset that I hope I can stay in.   After reading it, I remember that I spontaneously started saying during contractions.   "Just this...

I did hyponobabies for my first birth.  I think it had benefits but I didn't find it "good" for my birthing experience.  I really don't think it prepared me for how tough childbirth would be.  In fact I remember yelling...

As others have said, the psychoactive properties of MJ  might really amp up the stuff your feeling with PPD.   I really suggest finding therapist/dr who specialize in treating PPD and taking a standard...

first time - 10 weeks tired and smell aversions this time - tired immediately but then I was tired before :)  Mild crampy feeling 4 weeks and on.

A follow up on the OP comment about finding a "birth trauma" EMDR specialist.  My therapist was not birth trauma specialist at all. Just compassionate. She was never dismissive of my experience which was not a...

yes yes yes.   For me it made an amazing difference.   I had bad PPD and PTSD after the birth of my LO.  PPD started within hours of her birth and just got worse and worse.  I saw one bad therapist who said...