Handling Stress in Pregnancy and Postpartum

Handling Stress in Pregnancy and Postpartum

by | Aug 3, 2019 | Birth You Desire Blog

Pregnancy and bringing your newborn home may offer some new challenges and many blessings.  The stress of strangers asking you personal questions and feeling out of control in your own rapidly changing body can be a very real challenge.  Bringing a new baby home to feed, diaper, and care for is yet another challenge.  No matter how well prepared you are there is always something unexpected to deal with.

What is Diastasis? And What You Can Do About it.

What is Diastasis? And What You Can Do About it.

by | May 15, 2019 | Birth You Desire Blog

There are lots of events that change our bodies for us, whether we welcome those changes or not. Take pregnancy, for example. It’s great to grow a human and, well, have the baby — but there’s weight gain and other muscular changes that might happen during a pregnancy. And some of those changes can happen to people who don’t get pregnant, too. One is called diastasis recti.