When a woman becomes pregnant, her body’s first priority is for the developing baby in the womb. In fact, the baby will receive nutrition even if it comes at the expense of the mother’s body; it’s just the way Mother Nature works. Furthermore, child birth can have...

How does your mental well-being during pregnancy affect delivery, recovery, and your newborn?  A growing tide of prenatal-care practitioners are including well-beingness advice and counseling as part of their preventive care for pregnant women in an effort to stem...

Quite often a person will experience a time in their lives when they will have periods of depression. It is very normal to have these feelings, especially when you have had a death in the family, or you are getting much older and you feel you have no useful reason to...

Depression begins for all different reasons and so many of those cases are related to a hormone imbalance in the body.  This is most evident with postpartum depression. Our bodies produce hormones in every cell in the body, in minute amounts, but vital to the overall...

‘Hormone’ comes from a Greek word that means “to spur on”. A hormone is a type of chemical released by one or many cells. It can affect cells in other parts of the body. These are like little messengers of the endocrine glands, (Pineal, Pituitary, Hypothalamus,...

Postpartum depression is no laughing matter, as the woman affected cannot control the moods due largely in part from the body changes after giving birth. Changes in hormone levels can cause this reaction and the mother will experience postpartum depression to varying...