A Trail of Tears and Fired Doctors Let’s take a closer look at potential cause ## – stressful life event or season of Life. I personally believe that giving birth was the event that “turned up” my autoimmune condition. Whether it was the physical strain of pregnancy and giving birth, the hormonal upheaval that accompanies …
Leaky Gut – What is it and Why Does it Happen?
And, How to Know if You Have it.
A Long Row to Hoe – Part One
After the first appointment with my O.B. ended so disappointingly, I wasn’t sure where to turn next. So, like many other desperate people, I began a sordid relationship with “Dr. Google.” I spent countless hours reading material on-line. My symptoms fit into so many possible categories… Was this postpartum depression? Post partum anxiety? Were my …
Is This Postpartum Depression or “just” Parenthood?
Postpartum depression can be a tricky thing to identify. “Is this postpartum depression? Postpartum anxiety? Is this postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder? A classic case of the ‘baby blues’ that will clear up on it’s own or is this simply the result of chronic sleep deprivation and the shock of all my body and mind have …
“Our Story” – an outline
Where to Begin? A Beginning – Brand New Baby. Sick New Mommy Things Don’t Go According to Plan “Breast is Best” Pumping Sucks Is This Postpartum Depression or Just Parenthood? Is this physiological, psychological, spiritual or all of the above? What is Postpartum Depression? Why are you depressed? Hormones? Autoimmune response? Emotional? Spiritual? All of …
Things Don’t Go According To Plan
Things Don’t Go According To Plan We got baby home from the hospital and all seemed to be going well, at first. The plan was to exclusively breastfeed and that’s what we did. I, like many new mom’s, had read Baby Wise , upon the recommendation of several other mom friends who said it had really …
“Breast is Best.”
The pediatrician sat me down and as kindly and calmly as one could, simply asked, “So, how is breastfeeding going?” I sat in the chair across from her suddenly feeling very self-conscious of the nursing tank I had on that was holding in my modest little breasts that now, I sort of felt had failed …
Brand New Baby. Sick New Mommy?
I gave birth to my first child on September, 17th 2013. I remember some of my very first moments with my new baby girl with crystal clear clarity. The feel. The smell. The emotion. It was profound in the truest sense of the word. I remember the way that love felt because it was unlike …
Our Autoimmune Story
There are so many places I could start in trying to share how we got into this crazy world of paleo and autoimmune protocol eating.