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| After Child Birth Weight Loss With Dr. M. Diennet M.D. |
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The First Few Weeks At last! Your baby has arrived. The months ahead, as you get to know each other, will almost certainly be among the most exciting of your life.But what about your figure? can you handle everything and lose the weight? Don't be surprised, though, if your new life also brings a little bit of worry, bad temper and insecurity. And prepare to feel exhausted from time to time--nearly all new mothers do. |
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It's easy to see why. After the huge physical effort of carrying and giving birth to your baby, your body probably feels sore, heavy and drained of energy. You may just want to lie down and sleep. Instead you have to cope with interrupted sleep, a completely new routine and the amazing responsibility of caring for a new, precious life. There are bound to be tears--not all of them from baby.
Now is certainly not the time to starve yourself or to waste all you energy on working out to look thin and yet you need to get back to the way you were before for your personal well being. Its not as difficult or overwhelming as you think just get on the diennet program for after child birth and without the starvation stress and endless work outs you will look better in a matter of weeks. |
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| Emotions |
| During the first week after your baby's birth you are very likely to have a day or two of "baby blues". "You may feel unaccountably miserable, burst into tears for no reason, or feel suddenly irritable. This is normal--nearly all women go through it and it will soon pass. It is also normal to feel a bit "up and down" for a few months, and to feel anxious from time to time. You may worry that you are not a good enough mother, or that you don't love your baby as much as you should. Don't worry. Most women feel this way and it will sort itself out as you get more confident. |
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| Postpartum Depression |
| However, a few women develop a more serious type of "baby blues": postpartum depression. This condition may be triggered by the dramatic drop in hormones which follows childbirth. Some women react to this by sinking into a deep state of misery. This is not normal. If you feel so unhappy, lethargic and irritable that you are not getting any pleasure from your new baby, talk to your health care provider or physician. Postpartum depression can be treated, and it is important for both you, and your baby, that it is. |
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| Getting Back to Normal |
| However physically fit and well-prepared you may have been before the birth, after it you will feel sore. Labor is just that--hard work, and your muscles will be stretched and aching. If you had a vaginal delivery you will be extremely tender and if you had stitches to repair the opening they will take time to heal. If you had a Cesarean your internal stitches will make it difficult to move without pain. After the birth you will have a pink-brown discharge and you will need to wear sanitary pads to stop it from staining your clothes. This is not a period--the discharge is called lochia and it is quite normal. It usually tails off after about four weeks. During pregnancy your uterus was stretched many times its normal size. After childbirth it shrinks back to about the size of your fist and this may cause pains, similar to menstrual cramps. This discomfort is most common in women who are breast feeding, and who have already had one or more babies. Your breasts will be swollen with milk, and may be sore or painful for a few days. |
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| Pelvic Floor Exercises |
| During labor you may have also strained the muscles which you use to control the flow of urine from your bladder. This is true if the birth was sudden or very difficult. If this has happened you may find that you have started to lose a drop or two of urine when you exert yourself, or when you cough or sneeze. The answer to this problem is very simple: exercise! Pelvic floor exercises will hurt at first because your whole pelvic area will be sore from birth. But the sooner you start them, and the more you do, the better your chance of regaining a "watertight" bladder. The pelvic floor muscles also control your "grip" during sexual intercourse, so if you keep them fit you may improve your sex life too! How to do them: Imagine that you are urinating and you want to stop the flow. The muscle contraction you would use to do that- an upward and inward pull- is the one you want to practice in order to get your bladder control back to normal. Contract the muscles, hold for a second or two, then release. Then repeat. Start by doing half a dozen "pull ups" and build up to twenty or so per session, holding the muscles in for longer each time. |
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| Look After Yourself |
of course you did put on weight
After a couple of months you should be feeling something like your old self again. Don't concentrate so hard on taking care of your baby that you forget to take after yourself! Take plenty of rest, eat well, indulge yourself a little--it will do you both good in the long run.
But you need to loose weight and you cannot do it by yourself alone.So do not hesitate to use the Diennet institute which help you to recover your body without pain. |
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| When Can We Make Love Again? |
| When you want to, basically. It probably wouldn't do you any harm to have sexual intercourse within a week or two of giving birth--but it would be far too painful to enjoy. Most doctors recommend that women wait until after their six week check up before restarting sexual intercourse. But many women choose to wait longer. The important thing is not to feel pressured about sex. Lots of new mothers find they lose interest, for a while, in making love. If you feel like this, talk to your partner about it and try to get him to understand. In time, your normal sex drive will almost certainly return. |
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| Contraception |
| If you do not plan to have another baby immediately you need to use contraceptives from the time you resume intercourse--even if you are breastfeeding. Remember, you ovulate before your periods return, and you can get pregnant while you are breastfeeding, so take care! |
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| When Your Periods Return |
| Your periods will restart a few months after delivery. If you breast feed they may not come back until after your baby is weaned. They may take on a slightly different pattern from before--be more regular, lighter or heavier. Most women wait until their second period, after childbirth, before using tampons again simply because they still feel sore. If your period has changed you may need to use different absorbency tampons from the ones you used before. In the U.S., Tampax® tampons come in four different absorbencies: Lites, a junior absorbency, for light flow days, Regular and Slender Regular for light to medium flow days, Super for medium to heavy flow and Super Plus for very heavy flow. Be sure to choose the lowest absorbency tampon to control your flow each day. |
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