Parenting is hard. If you are a parent you know this. If you are not, try as you might, you really cannot begin to understand how difficult it can be. If you spend any significant amount of time around children or parents you may gather a little bit of perspective into the world that is …
A Long Row to Hoe – Part Two
I started asking around my varying social groups if anyone had a primary care doctor they really loved. I was super dissatisfied with my doctor’s response. I needed a second opinion and I wanted to get one fast. Every single day felt like torture. Trudging through each day; sleepwalking through my life, only to have …
My Journey to a Diagnosis
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 …