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Placental encapsulation

Not too long ago I wrote a post about Anderson Cooper discussing placental encapsulation on his talk show and why I’ve decided to do it after this birth. One of my great friends from college, Sheena at Diapers Full of Blarney, wrote this guest post for me on the topic so please read on and show her some love!

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After the birth

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New Moms: dealing with depression

I wrote a long, long time ago about my baby blues or whatever they’re called… because it’s not talked about enough and these categories have been defined, but make you feel like you don’t fit in any of them. Eight out of ten new moms get baby blues.…. that’s 80%! That’s huge. But you always think it won’t happen to you, right? You think… I love that baby in

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Antidepressants and miscarriages

I didn’t learn until AFTER my cesarean that they can result in fertility issues later on – I cried for days. If an egg tries to attach to the incision site on my uterus, I will lose it and miscarry. I would be beyond devastated – not only for the loss of the baby, but because my cesarean was the cause (meaning I was the cause… it would be my fault, all over again). I am not sure that is something I would

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Baby Blues...or something like that

This post is long overdue. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile. Part of me felt embarrassed to write it because for some reason I thought I shouldn’t have felt the way I did. Part of me didn’t really know exactly how I felt.

Now that I’m “normal” I can look back on Ryan’s first month and really see what I went through. It’s hard though, because it’s all a little blurry. I was depressed and that makes it hard to remember. Plus, I was

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