by Liza Janda | Sep 14, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum, Postpartum Depression |
A DOSE OF REALITY – BABY BLUES You anticipated the arrival of your new baby for months. You envisioned blissful joy and infinite love. But SMACK! Reality just hit you hard. 80% of new moms will have the Baby Blues in the postpartum period. The postpartum period...
by Liza Janda | Jul 26, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Uncategorized |
New Baby In The House? If you’re a new parent, like I was 25 years ago, you may be stressing over a lot of things. The biggest thing for me with a newborn was desperately trying to figure out what she needed when she was apparently unhappy. I was so relieved when my...
by Liza Janda | Jul 9, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum, Uncategorized |
The birth of a baby can prompt a plethora of powerful emotions – joy of being a mother and anxiety or stress because of the sudden and huge changes in life. However, childbirth can also result in something you do not expect – depression. From the time you had a...
by Liza Janda | May 2, 2017 | Breastfeeding, Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Postpartum |
by Liza Janda If you’re like most women in the U.S. you probably had a cascade of interventions during labor and birth to help get your baby out. The use of these interventions – IV, epidural, pitocin, analgesia, antibiotics – can often be very helpful but...
by Liza Janda | Feb 16, 2017 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care, Labor and Birth Advice, Postpartum |
I get this question frequently in my childbirth classes, ”Should I store my baby’s cord blood?” Let me tell you, I know next to nothing about this subject. I know a lot of information about having a normal, safe, and healthy pregnancy, labor, and birth, but that’s...
by Liza Janda | Dec 12, 2016 | Bringing Baby Home Postpartum Care |
Dr. Kimberly Ortiz, Psy. D., LMFT Doctor of Psychology Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #83635 Aren’t you so in love? Wasn’t giving birth the best day of your life? Isn’t breastfeeding magical? These are just a few of the questions new moms are asked on a daily...
