Babyternals

After a woman has a baby her body, obviously goes through many changes, but her emotions and how she feels may go through changes, as well. After I had my son I noticed that I started having feelings of sadness, mood swings, and I was crying a lot. I didn’t want to stay home by myself. At first I thought it may be just the “baby blues”, but my husband was concerned it was turning into postpartum depression. He supported me during this time by letting me express how I was feeling even though I didn’t understand why I was feeling this way. I had just given birth to the most precious baby in the whole world so why was I feeling like this.  That was the most frustrating part. Even though I didn’t have the first thought of hurting my son, I found myself asking my husband what to do even though deep down if I would have been thinking clearly I knew how.

Read more …

When I was pregnant with my son I found out I was gestational diabetic when I was about 20 weeks along. At first, I was scared because most importantly I didn’t know what this meant for my baby.  My doctor talked to me about my diet, as well as sending me to a class to educate me on what was healthy for me to eat and what was not. And, of course, my cravings consisted of all the things that were not healthy for me. You know when you become pregnant people say: you can eat whatever you want because you are eating for two. Well, I don’t think that’s exactly accurate. If you are diagnosed as gestational diabetic you are pretty much on a strict diet to keep your sugar under control. I learned that if not kept under control that I could have a difficult delivery and my son could be affected, not only by being larger in birth weight, but he could have sugar problems after delivery.

Read more …