I heard so many stories about mothers getting this overwhelming «in love»
feeling after giving birth to their babies, and I really hoped that a natural birth would accomplish that for me.
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I could not believe this woman was using her position at the hospital
to shame new mothers in that fashion and make them
feel, immediately
after giving birth, that they were bad mothers and didn't love their new
babies enough.
If you
feel uncomfortable exercising in public
after you have
given birth or you don't want
to leave your
baby, get a fitness DVD.
After giving birth, as you start
to lactate, the level of the powerful hormone oxytocin starts
to rise — which creates a
feeling of euphoria and helps develop a strong bond with
baby.
Up
to 80 percent of moms
feel weepy and emotional in the weeks
after giving birth, known as the
baby blues.
Many women now
feel under pressure
to lose their
baby weight as quickly as possible, especially now that celebrities seem
to be photographed looking incredibly trim just days
after giving birth; however, you shouldn't force yourself
to lose the weight as quickly as possible as this is not healthy.
Former Playboy bunny Kendra Wilkinson admits
to feeling a lot of pressure
to immediately lose her
baby weight and get back in shape
after giving birth to her son in 2009.
We didn't chose that 2 year gap, it chose us — I got my period back only 6 weeks
after giving birth the first time despite full time breastfeeding of course — but at the time of conception I was so ready for another
baby - the second time it took 18 months
to return and I didn't
feel ready at all for another one during that time.
Samantha Meltzer - Brody, M.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Perinatal Psychiatry Program, UNC Center for Women's Mood Disorders, thinks there's still a stigma attached
to admitting that you're
feeling sad
after you've just
given birth to a beautiful
baby.
For me, «losing the
baby weight» simply meant getting my body
to a place
after giving birth that
felt healthy and strong and comfortable for me.
It's also normal
to get the
baby blues in the first few days
after giving birth, so don't be surprised if you
feel emotional or weepy.
About halfway through now and we are onto the next task that a mother must face soon
after giving birth to her
baby and that is the many, many, many questions that are asked by the doctors and nurses treating you, which can
feel relentless and be very tiring
to constantly answer.