Striving For A Happy Childhood
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Happy Mothers’ Day!.
Being a mother is a roller coaster ride that starts as soon as the baby arrives. Meeting the newborn’s demands through emotional upheaval, the new mothers have it the toughest.
Yes, Baby Blues are medically acknowledged real mood swings.
Family support and in time of need timely medical intervention can prevent its long term ill effects on the mother’s psyche, the baby’s development and family happiness. Continue reading ……
The article of the month: Baby Blues
Be forearmed.
And enjoy motherhood!!!
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Baby Blues
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Baby Blues
Baby blues are often talked about lightly with lots of puns and fun weaved around disturbed emotional state of new mothers. Several cartoon strips and comic series have emerged on the theme. Consequently most young women shy off from reliving their suffering and thereby from seeking help. As a result, what follows is emotional disharmony, confusion and stress in parenting newborn.
The bundle of joy would bring in so much of turmoil, is never thought of.
Though baby blues are medically acknowledged genuine mood swings experienced by almost all women within a week of childbirth, most couples go through the pregnancy totally heedless about them. And wonder why their joy of having the baby is masked by depression.
Pre-menstrual mood swings secondary to fluctuation of sex hormones, serotonin activity in brain along with beta endorphin levels are well known; same is true for baby blues.
The neurotransmitters of expectant mother’s brain undergo major changes during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Studies show that abrupt depletion of these catecholamines and serotonin levels noted after childbirth could attribute to behavioral changes in new mothers. Post childbirth ineffective fragmented sleep further adds to mother’s unstable emotional state, which not only leaves the new mother exhausted, but also jeopardizes the newborn’ development and the father’s parenting.
New mother’s moods swing from mild elation to depression with spectra of ambivalence and confusion leading to irritability and tearfulness.
Only 15% of baby blues progress into postpartum depression. The risk factors that are known to intensify baby blues and lead to clinical postpartum depression are:
• Anxious personality
• Stressful life events and daily hassles
• History of depression
• Lack of partner support
• Socioeconomic stress in the family
• Domestic disharmony or violence
• Unintended pregnancy
• Childbirth during winter months.
Seasonal mood swings during winter months are common, particularly in women of childbearing age. Therefore, women who deliver during October, November and December months are prone to more severe baby blues that may persist for longer duration too.
• Compromised childbirth outcome
Newborn baby’s ill health or complication of childbirth in the mother also aggravate emotional imbalance of new parents.
Forewarned is forearmed
Prevailing lack of awareness on reality of postpartum depression hinders timely intervention. If the new parents can ventilate their blues without the fear of being ridiculed, it helps overcoming the negative mood swings and disperses the tensions. It also gives an opportunity to screen for risk factors associated with baby blues during the last three months of pregnancy and prevent perpetuating depression that would demand medical intervention. Moreover, women known to have the risk factors would then seek preconceptional help for their emotional stress.
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Jaundice in Newborns
Parents’ awareness on jaundice in newborns is crucial. Awareness of warning symptoms and signs helps prevent brain injury of the neonate by early diagnosis, diligent follow up, meticulous monitoring and prompt treatment.
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Mothers Who Drink Alcohol Beware
Incidence of sudden infant deaths (SIDS) is several folds higher in babies of mothers who drink alcohol during pregnancy or during first year of childbirth.
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Obesity in Mothers
Mothers’ pre pregnancy weight could be an important criteria to determine their children’s learning abilities during middle childhood years.
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Ankle Twitching
The cut out limit of 3 months for normal and abnormal Jitteriness in Newborns is a safe limit recommended to avoid delay in optimal medical attention in an abnormal case.
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Conceiving after Abortion
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