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What Food Sensitivities Might Mean in the Grand Scheme of Things | Ivy's PPD Blog
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Ivy's PPD Blog. What Food Sensitivities Might Mean in the Grand Scheme of Things. This morning, I saw a post in my Facebook feed about yesterday’s article by Rachel Rabkin Peachman in Motherlode (NY Times) titled “Picky Eating in Children Linked to Anxiety, Depression and A.D.H.D.”. This was not the only article that was motivated by yesterday’s Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics article titled “Psychological and Psychosocial Impairment in Preschoolers With Selective Eating”. Check (for my dau...
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Ivy's PPD Blog. Postpartum Insomnia Series – Story 2: KIM. Posted in maternal mental health. This is the second of the series of posts about postpartum insomnia. I met Kim recently via the closed Facebook group for Postpartum Support International. Insomnia was one of the symptoms that she suffered as a consequence of postpartum anxiety and postpartum obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Thank you, Kim, for sharing your story on my blog! Anyway, before I became pregnant with my first child, I had a misca...
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Paving the Way for Emotional Health In Teen Girls | Ivy's PPD Blog
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Ivy's PPD Blog. Paving the Way for Emotional Health In Teen Girls. Since its release, the movie “Inside Out” has helped put emotional health on the front burner of discussions and will hopefully make it a lot easier for families to talk about emotions on a regular basis. This movie was, quite simply, brilliant in going somewhere no other film for children has ever gone (at least none that I’m aware). Why? I’ve found that many adults have enough challenges in understanding/coping with/expressing/rel...
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Risk Factors for PPD | Ivy's PPD Blog
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Ivy's PPD Blog. Risk Factors for PPD. As I mentioned in my earlier post. If you were to ask if there’s any way to know for sure whether you are at risk for PPD, the answer is No. So, how the heck can a woman know her risk for PPD? Knowing what PPD is, what the symptoms are, and whether you’re at risk, as well as preparing for the possibility that you will develop it would be to your advantage. How’s that, you ask? Abrupt weaning/discontinuation of breastfeeding. Personal history of depression, perinatal ...