Anyone educated about postpartum and/or breastfeeding hormones? I seem to have just hit a major shift... like a brick wall! I have tried to research hormonal changes at this point PP but am coming up with nada.
DD will be 4 months old tomorrow and EBF. In the last 3 days, my hair started falling out (like, in clumps!), I'm having bad headaches, really, really bad fatigue, and suddenly, I can't run. I'm a well-trained runner and up until last week was running 8 miles without a problem. Suddenly, running 3 miles is the hardest task of my life and I just can't. I am noticing vaginal dryness and last night had pain during intercourse.. the first time I can ever remember that happening. Also, I am starting to feel pain while breastfeeding? I haven't had any sort of pain nursing since we worked out some issues when DD was only a few weeks. It feels like my nipples/breasts are dry or something and almost like she's chomping, it's so uncomfortable. I am eating a really well balanced diet (imo) - Since I am breastfeeding and training and small (115 lb) I am taking in about 2700-3000 calories a day, eating whole foods (and I'm gluten free). I also hydrate really well, tons of H20 , fresh-squeezed juice & soymilk. My lifestyle and diet usually keeps me really well energized so I can only think of hormones as a problem - is this typical 4 months PP? Is there something I can do to balance them and shake this cruddy feeling? TIA!
I wasn't EBF my DS at this age so it's probably not a good comparison, but I don't remember anything like this with him?
