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Article by Kira L Fischer

Bonding with your baby is immensely important in the first couple of months of bringing baby home. Mother and Baby bonding will help to lower the risk of postnatal depression in the mother and provide the baby’s first model for intimate relationships and engage a sense of security and positive self-esteem. Mommy’s Online Helper provides a range of baby products and information to help mothers create a positive environment for their children. The product range includes Organic Baby Clothing, Baby Bjorn Baby Carriers, Baby Blankets, Dr Brown’s BPA Free Baby Bottles, Personalized Baby Outfits and Baby Ebooks. Using such products will help to nurture and care for your baby ultimately forming that special bond.

Organic baby clothes will make any mother feel they are doing the best for their baby. With all the chemicals in our world today it’s nice to know that by choosing organic baby clothes you limit the amount of chemicals your baby is exposed to. The best way to create a bond with your baby is to keep baby close with a baby bjorn baby carrier. These are great to be able to connect with your baby whilst still having the freedom to move around and carry on with your daily routine.

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Question by Alanarama: can anyone with bipolar disorder please help me?
hiya, i am 22 years old, i have suffered with “depression” on and off since i was 14 years old.
i had prenatal and postnatal depression when i was 17-18 aswell.
anyways recently i have been tnhinking maybe i do not have depression as such, but bipolar disorder. the reason i say this is, i am so up and down all the time!
like take last week, i was soooooooooo hyper my bf actually asked wots up with me coz im not usually like that. was acing very outgoing and over confident, i even got up and sang karaoke (ha), i cleaned the whole house top to bottom in a day, and still wanted to do more, i got told to “shut up” on more than one occasion as people cudnt get a word in ages and i had repeated the same thing numerous times. I was getting up an hour before i needed to,i was wanting sex 2-3 times oer day and felt on top of the world. then one day boom, i come crashing down, i just wanted to lay in bed all day n cry in a heap n not move, even possibly not wake up if i could help it. i had no sex drive at all, nothing could make me smile, i felt hollow and “not there” .
yesterday i woke up happy as larry in a right good mood, then around 3 oclock in the afternoon for no reason, i dissolved into tears and then would not speak for the rest of the afternoon coz i felt so “dull”.
now throughout my life when i was younger people always used to coment on how i was the life and soul of the party n really hyper and i did alot of thiings that sometimes got me into trouble, but at the same time i was being treated for depression coz i felt so low? i have in the past, spent money recklessly that i didnt have to spend…..£100′s on new clothes i dont need instead of food for the week or the rent….i can also get VERY angry VERY quickly for no apparent reason, be fine one minute,actually flip out on my other half or my son one minute, and the next have no idea why i am in such a mood and start crying coz i think im cracking up.
ive al;ways been up and down since my early teens, and im just worrying now how it might be affecting my son, its not fair on him. the possibility of bipolar has never been examined in me. i had years of treatment for depression (councilling and antidepressants) but i took myself off them as it wasnt making any difference what soever.
ive been to the doctors and explained how ive been feeling later, and they said “thats just what its like to be a woman” and when i persisted and got referred to a counciller, she made me fill in a questionaire about how depressed i had been in the past week, obviously i had been on a high that week and when i filled it in it showed now signs of depression so i have been discharged.
i KNOW that i am not right in myself, i shouldnt be feeling like this, like im cracking up…..so my question is do u think i am bipolar? and if so how do i go about gettin my doctor to investigate it further? and if not any other ideas what it could be? thankyou in advance i hope someone can give me a good answer xx
forgot to say, i have taken 3 different online bipolar screening tests and all of them came back with i have moderate/severe symptoms :/

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First off- I have a huge fear of swallowing pills and I just can’t do it- mentally, that is. It causes me great anxiety to try to swallow a pill. And when you’re pregnant, anxiety does no good. I have looked and looked for the chewable prenatal vitamins, only sadly to find out you can only get them through prescription. My husband and I just got married, so I am still waiting to be put on his insurance, otherwise I would ask an OB or doctor instead.

So, right now I have the Spring Valley prenatal vitamins, they come in a green and yellow container. They are the swallowable kind, but no where on the container does it say I can’t crush them up or chew them.

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I’ve had a pretty difficult past few yrs. I was in 2 year relationship and I found out I was pregnant. When I was 3 months pregnant I found out that my best friend took advantage of me when I was drunk. ( I should have been more responsible). His sister e-mailed me and told me that her brother told her that my baby might be his. I told boyfriend about it and he stood by myside. Then on Christmas eve he broke up with me. Minding you I just turned 9 months. He blew me off for the rest of the time but only went with me to my prenatal visits. 3days before my son was born he started dating this girl from work. And kept lying to me about he just needed to to himself. A couple days later we tooka paternity test and found out that he was not the father. I was devistated and went into a form of depression. I was so blinded by everything that he would tell me after that with all the ” I Love You’s” & the “I dont want to be with her” and messing with my head, he continued to have a whenever-he- felt-like-it- relationship with me. Then I became pregnant by him and he had me have an abortion because he didnt want it and I couldn’t take care of another child. But by the time i went to have the procedure done, i have an ectoptic pregnancy and had to have the procedure done regardless. Then few months later I met my husband. At first we didnt look at each other in any sexual kind of way since we both just came out of pretty bad relationships. The first week we talked non-stop, about anything and everything. He fell in love with my son from the day he met him. 2 months later we got married. Everything happened so fast. From the time we got married my husbands help went down hill. We got married in September. In september he found out he had kidney stones, October Pnemonia, November atrial fibulation (which is very rare in a 24yrs old.) December, upper respiratory infection that lasted 2weeks. January his Gerd and acid reflex was really bad. April he had another upper respiratory infection and found out he has asthma. This monday he just had surgery because he had an inguinal hernia. in December he got laid off from work. And we had to move back to my parents house in April, (due to financial problems.) July he decided to go back to school for his Bachlors’ in Business Management & got his job back working part-time. I just graduated from Medical Assisting and got my diploma last months. I can’t afford daycare so I can work or have anyone in my family that can watch him until I can find a daycare i can afford. Then being a first time mom while my sons going through his teribble two’s at one, and getting spoiled by my parents. I still havent found a job yet. Then my husband is also a rapper and put his dreams aside and decided that now is the time to start. He’d leave the house at 8′oclock and wont come back until 4 in the morning. I dont know what to do. My family tells me thats not good, and i trust & love him but have second thoughts. Can anyone give me advice on how to cope with stress?

Hi,
I’m using my g/f’s account on here because i need some advice. She has postnatal depression (as per the title) and the main thing thats concerning me is she won’t eat. Ok she will eat but feels horrible when she does, no shes not anerexic, she just hasnt eaten a decent meal for about a week now and im really concerned. All i’m asking is can someone give me some advice on what do and if possible do you know any supplements or tablets that can help build her immune system and body back up to a healthy level? Doesnt matter what you can offer me , money is no object in this case!

Thanks

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hope you can help.
I have 2 kids ages 8 months and 5 years. after my first child was born my partners got severe postnatal depression but never really accepted this until 2 and a half years later when she was fine.

Over the past few months I have started to pick up these signs again and it has now got to breaking point.

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I am a 23 year old female. I am healthy and I eat a proper diet. I usually only drink water (4-6 glasses a day). I do have a sweet tooth though. Since Jan 10th of this year I have had dry mouth. It feels like it is more my tongue and the roof of my mouth. My saliva seems ok under my tongue and inside of lips at times. My tongue is white and my saliva gets frothy. I do experience dry eyes at times, but it is the winter and it is VERY dry where I live. I am not on any medications and I wasn’t at the time. The only thing I was taking was a prenatal vitamin because I am spacing out my pregnancies. I have tried 3 different meds for oral thrush (my doc said I had it) but the dry mouth feeling never went away. Since the beginning of 2009 I have been under alot of stress and anxiety and depression now because of my mouth. I know anxiety can cause dry mouth, but for almost 2 months?? I have been tested for diabetes, and I do not have it. I also do not have HIV. I had a virus right before I got my dry mouth. Also I have had alot of sinus problems since 2007. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks!
p.s. I do have GERD.

Basically I have always known that she was mentally ill (due to growing up with her behavior, but now I know that she was originally ‘normal’ before and only became mentally ill after suffering postnatal depression, it has now prompted me to investigate what is actually wrong with her.

She has expressed the following symptoms:
- Fatigue; she’s always tired, though she is also anaemic, though I don’t know whether she has always had this
- Paranoia; most of the time my mum is strangely happy and ditzy (sometimes in a child-like way) however sometimes some form of trigger (a random person usually: there is no links between the people who have set her off in the past), will walk past and her mood will instantly change, she will become paranoid and possesive, convinced the person is some how trying to hurt me or my sister. She will just stare at them, with a blank look across her face, sometimes she may approach them (which can be quite awkward) and prefers to be left alone by my family at this point; she has snapped at us in the past
- She also talks (mumbles) to herself quite frequently, especially about certain subjects, such as past boyfriends and referring to myself and my sister as “snow white princesses”

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I am 22 weeks pregnant. Prior to pregnancy, I smoked about 20 cigarettes a day, since I found out I was pregnant I smoke about 10 cigarretes a day. Yes, I receive prenatal care and take prenatal vitamins. My doctor is aware of the smoking and has me on a plan to decrease gradually. When I quit “cold” turkey, my BP went high and anxiety levels went up, so we are on a plan to decrease cigs. My baby appears healthy in the womb and there are no concerns that the dr has. Has anyone ever experienced this and could not quit?? I LOVE my son and only want the best for him and that is why we are decreasing slowly.