Beating the blues – postnatal depression
For many months, maybe many years, you have looked forward to this moment, your own wonderful baby. But instead of feeling great joy you feel low, irritable, unable to cope, anxious and exhausted.
Around 1 in 10 mothers suffer from some degree of postnatal depression. Many women never tell anyone, feeling isolated, and that they are failing.
Your feelings may be due to some very simple reasons …
From the day your baby starts to grow it requires building blocks. To build bones, organs, immune and other systems. These building blocks come from you, through your umbilical cord and later through your milk. If your body struggles to meet this extra demand it may affect your mind, making you feel low, unable to cope, and constantly tired.
Nutritional medicine may be able to help …
For example:
You may need to increase your level of tryptophan, an amino acid
that enables your body to make serotonin (your happy hormone).
You may be low in chromium resulting in blood sugar dips, leaving
you feeling anxious and irritable.
You may be low in Vitamin B3, which is crucial for your body to
manufacture serotonin.
There are many building blocks that can affect the happiness and calmness of your mind, by considering each of these building blocks your mind can be helped to a calmer, happier place.
To find out if nutritional medicine could help you,
contact Pam today …