Katherine Stone: 5 Things Every New Mother Should Know About Postpartum Depression

As a new mom who suffered from a severe case of PPD, I can say that your post on PPD was spot on. It took nine months before I felt "normal" (whatever that is!) and the experience strained myself, my husband, and our families tremendously. All I can stress is that nobody should be afraid to seek help, whatever is needed. In my case, I needed to have an adult stay with me and my daughter; I was terrified that the baby would die. She grew to be a perfectly fine young woman(in spite of my fears!) and I learned that my early fears were groundless. Thank you for giving accurate and helpful information.
Karen

Thank you so much for this..I suffered from intrusive thoughts a day after my baby girl was born...it is the most horrifying thing a mother could go through.. I DID NOT know it was part of post partum depression..I think it needs to get out there that the intrusive thoughts are part of it..I felt so ashamed and thought they were going to take my baby away...I did get help. I am taking the anxiety medication called Paxil. I also read that taking Omega 3 6 9 helps, so I am taking them. I RARELY get the ITs anymore and when I do, I can easily get passed them. THANK GOD! My baby girl is 4 months old today!

Hanna whom was a herbaligist, healer, nurse, had a person show her how to get ridd of postpartum blues.
She said it was because there is a nerve pinching on the back after
delivery of baby, because the bones didn't go back into original place
and to correct it she would teach the husband to have wife sit on a counter, the man holds around the womans hips, lifts her a few inches off the counter and drops her on counter. This puts the bones back into place. Hanna is no longer with us and her daughter now runs her business, plus her Herb Shop is still in business. I can give you names of people whom worked with her and maybe her daughter knows of this treatment.
My daughter had this done after her baby, whom is now 26 years old. She was very depressed and after one session she wAs back to normal, I seen her work on others also.
Please let me know if you are interested in this ,I feel it is of great importance as I seen it work and some Chiropractors may know of this as from what I remember that is who taught her.
Thank You, Dina

Oh, puhleeze! Tomcat is too busy showing off his heinie on Oprah.

Well this is good to know about. If I fill overwelled,well my boyfriend just said it is real bad. Too many things on the "TO DO LIST." I love children and we want to have some. The wedding is October. Blue wanted to talk to me??? She can fine out more about me at www.worldwittnessministries.org If you run into Kurtis, He tends to rub skin the wonge way sometimes,but he's good. I'm his Boss, at lest that's what God said. Just water off a ducks back. If anyone has more on ppd, I would like to know.

April