Health and wellness Project of pregnant lady
...eresting but have a calling on my life just because I have a history of severe depression and even attempted suicide when I was younger attributed to a bad childhood. Also I was only 4 months post-partum when I became pregnant and have a history of “baby blues” that lasted for about 4 weeks after my first son was born. So you can see that how stress management is important and because of its direct link to physical reactions can be extremely important during pregnancy. My plan is to research some and speak with some professionals on stress management and techniques used to help with this. Also to look into risk factors associated with Post Traumatic Stress after childbirth to help eliminate them. I will keep a daily journal documenting my stress, my stress levels and my actions to counter act them. I have already been evaluating mentally some of my biggest stressors. One is school and the responsibilities that come with that, the other is Relationships and the responsibilities and sacrifices needed to maintain that which is important since I have had a child by my boyfriend and am having his and my second child by him. Healthy relationships effect the development of fetus, infants, and toddlers negatively and positively I don’t want to have a negative effect on my child because I have a bad temper and quick tongue. The risk factors associated with PTS and the likeliness of “baby blues” Up to eight out of 10 new mothers suffer from the 'baby blues' crying spells, mood swings, and irritability that seem out of place following the joyful miracle of giving birth. Although these feelings usually go away in a week or less, more than 10% of women go on to develop postpartum depression. This far more serious and long-lasting condition may endanger the well-being of both mother and baby, if left untreated. During the 6 weeks I evaluated my day and used 3, and later adding another technique, making that 4 techniques to relieve stress. One of these techniques was to take a longer shower which can be refreshing make you feel physically good relieve stress by getting you away from anything negative like a screaming baby or boyfriend with a bad attitude. I thought it would be best to just extend the time I took and spent in the shower allowing the water to just massage and relax me and get me away from everything. The second technique I used was to keep a journal many therapist and psychiatrist in my life experience suggest that this helps you to remember things also evaluate how you have been doing when you look back and read. Empty’s some of the negative thoughts you have and allows you to embellish and imagine the good ones. Also releases a lot of tension by just allowing you to vent. My third technique was to meditate on just clearing my mind and thinking of nothing maybe listening to some music to help but just relaxing and focusing on that. After I have cleared my mind of thoughts and just relaxed I began mentally imageing relaxing my muscles slowly until each muscle in my body was relaxed. This was a little difficult at first because I am a thinking type person I always am trying to run over things in my mind and I’m not that good at imagining things. I discovered however that once I mastered this after about 4 or 5 days that I really seemed to fall asleep faster and even stay sounder a little bit more. Sleeping is very important to me and so that was an extremely good thing. My fourth and new addition to the techniques was the Pregnancy one. Where I would spend a minimum of 20 minutes a day alone or with the baby’s dad just trying to bond with the baby. Talking about it rubbing my belly singing to him planning for him and so on. I really enjoyed this time it affirmed to me what was happening in my body and allowed me to take time to focus on that and the baby and what’s more wonderful then that planning trying to name and so on is an extremely exciting thrilling thing. Some days I will be feeling just rotten and after I done this it would just seem to make the day much better. I feel like the baby at least knows I think about it and care something for it. It cant understand much but that’s enough if I can at least give it that. My ratings where just a quick snappy evaluation of...