It's arrival time - delivery! More emotions and more hormones! During delivery, your body works to deliver the baby and hormones are in play big time. A simple statement and a complicated system. Your estrogen and progesterone levels change again – rapidly once delivery is complete. There’s an increase in another hormone, oxytocin. This hormone … Continue reading Hormones! Pregnancy! Whoohoo! – Part 2 of 2
Category: Breast feeding
Follow up – weed and breastfeeding
Hey...after just posting a blog about morning sickness and weed, this article popped up from our local paper. https://leaderpost.com/cannabis-health/pregnant-and-breastfeeding-mothers-should-abstain-from-using-cannabis-nurses-association It discusses the risks of using weed while breastfeeding. All good information for you to know....
Breast Feeding – Not As Easy As You Think…Part 2
So, I would sleep! Sure…. I have always been a light sleeper and found that I couldn’t stay sleeping because my daughter was making grunting, almost moaning, noises. There was a newly instituted protocol called, “rooming in” where the newborn was to stay in the room with the mother during the recovery period instead of … Continue reading Breast Feeding – Not As Easy As You Think…Part 2
