I’m 37w6d pregnant, and I’m just fed up. I have the most horrible ob/gyn clinic, where I don’t even have a “personal dr”. I have a nurse practitioner that does everything when I come in.. And the nurse is different every time I go. They’re saying I need to go to diabetic dieting classes at the clinic, yet no one’s said a single thing about me being diabetic. I have the worst pre-natal care imaginable. And EVERY single time I’ve been I’ve waited a good 20+ minutes in the waiting room past my appointment time. And I can’t even go in every week since they’re so booked. What the hell? Don’t I deserve to get my prenatal care every week??? I can’t change clinics either because I have Medicaid.. I have depression and I’m irritable, and all of this plus horrible pregnancy discomforts (hip pain, 2-4 hours of sleep a night, etc.) Is making me feel completely unwanted and empty.. I’m so miserable I’ve hardly been out of bed for 2 days.. I just want this baby out and to stop going to that crap clinic.. This turned into more of a rant, but whatever.
Thanks everyone. A ton x
I feel muchh better now, but still crappy at the same time. And yeah, there’s just about no clinics here that take medicaid. It’s awful.. Big city = money hungry
Northwood, or whatever.. What on Earth are you on about?.. Really… No, I’m not on Welfare? I hardly even know what it is. Booze? Drugs? I’m not even legal to buy cigarettes for myself. Let alone do I smoke or drink-or even WANT to. I never said I did not want my child, because I do. I’m married, believe it or not. And the baby’s father will be around. And no, my SYMPTOMS point to DEPRESSION. Do you know what that is? Go get some common sense please….

In the start of my pregnancy, it was rough, because it was not expected, and it was hard for my boyfriend to accept. After a few weeks, I was happy about it, and he grew happy too. We went and bought little things here and there. My boyfriend is supportive & now is excited to find out the sex, and is taking part in my prenatal visits, and growing into ‘being a dad’.

Me, on the other hand…..

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For any woman who has had a child, pregnancy can be a great experience excluding of course the nauseating pain that comes with child birth, but then that is an aside considering they have just brought a brand new life into the world. The problem is the pain is not the only side effect of a pregnancy, there is some degree of hair loss involved which is more of a postnatal effect as is well known by many mothers. Somewhere around 50% of women will experience this hair loss at some point in time after child birth. This usually happens within a one to five months period after child birth whereby in or around the third month is where in most cases the effect is really felt. This of course is a very distasteful situation and extremely unnerving especially since this affects their looks and their mood. What is even worst is when the person is a new or even worst yet a young mother which increases their rate for postnatal depression and lowering their self esteem.

What is the cause?

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Healthy parents raise emotionally healthy babies and a mother’s influence towards the same is great. No body can deny it. Hence it is imperative that females should have good mental health. The reality is, about 20 to 25 percent of women suffers with depression in their life time against 7 to 12 percent of men. This shows that women are very much prone to depressed than men. Depression strikes older women more often than men

In addition to environmental stressors and psychosocial factors, women are also influenced by biological factors to get depressed. That is why women are much prone to getting depressed than men

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I had post partum depression with my first son who is now almost 3 years old. It went away when I started taking thyroid meds. as well as vitamins and progesterone to regulate my female hormones. Then I got pregnant again and started feeling depressed again. The doctor advised me to take the progesterone every day for the first 3 mos. of pregnancy because thats when your body may not have enough. It really helped me and I didn’t know exactly how far along I was because I couldn’t get to a prenatal doctor so I ended up taking it well into my 4th month. When I found out how far along I actually was I stopped taking the progesterone and about a week later my symptoms came back, not full force but still there. Blue mood, fatigued….I’m just confused because I know the cause of ppd and the depression in the first trimester was because of low progesterone but now that I’m almost 6 mos. arent’ I making lots of progesterone?( I heard all pregnant women do)… I was also thinking it could be my thyroid getting sluggish again but my test came back normal from the prenatal doctor.

Pregnancy risks are one of the many things; a woman should be concerned about, once she knows that her baby is on the way. The quality of medical care and awareness of behavioral risk factors has drastically reduced pregnancy related complications today. Yet, it is important that that every woman going through a period of pregnancy is aware of certain things related to her pregnancy week by week.

Pregnancy Risk Factors

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What consequences has it had on the baby involved, in terms of mental health and emtional development?

It has been over 3 months since i gave birth. i had a c section then got an infection. i finally was all healed about a month ago and then it started. i feel useless even though im a single mom and the only one to watch my son. i feel like im pushing people away cuz i bottle thing. and theres much more. im almost positive i have postnatal depression. does anyone know what would help it. lease help me i feel on the edge and i just wish it would stop