women
are susceptible to emotional ups and downs after child delivery. Pregnancy phase changes a women psyche and
they have to change themselves overnight.
This sudden change in relationship, health, physique, attire results in
a drastic change in behavior. Those women who were not mentally prepared to
these kind of situation breaks down easily and undergoes depression. Women come across situation like labor pain
which they always try to manipulate and set their standards accordingly. But,
the fact about labor pain is absolutely different as the pain differs from
situation to situation. Even the same mother delivering second child may not
estimate the labor pain. Pain that
disturbs a women can be from vaginal delivery or from cesarean
delivery. Again a few moment separation from the child after delivery
also causes irritation. Delivery due to
vaginal birth tends to be normal and do not have much effect on the mother’s
emotion, however, to feel good can wear girdle
for women. But, if mother undergoes c-section delivery , then it takes huge
time to recover thereby causing irritation and emotional surge. Women can
minimize this by wearing a c-section
support belt to get relief from the upswing of the emotion.
Lot
many expectations from partners regarding sharing the load and extending
support for child care is also nullified at a stage. So, partners need to be
bit more supportive to their wife in raising the child. After mutual effort from both the partners
only reduces some kind of stress or depression from women. Delivering the role of parenting is a slow
process and both the partners should
gradually learn to accommodate without expecting too much in a short time and
invariably ending up with a feeling for guilt and finally depression. About 15 to 20% mothers undergoes depressions like anxiety, lethargic, guilt
feeling, mood swings, irritability, forgetfulness, crying tendency, staying lonely.
There
is also another reason for increase in postpartum depression in women. This is
due to the sudden increase in estrogen and progesterone hormone level within
24 hours of child birth. There is also seems to be a drop in thyroid
hormone in women after child birth. Other
things associated with women’s negative emotions are family emotions,
financial problem, bad relationship with partner and family tendency. There
is a certain level of dissatisfaction is seen after pregnancy when the physique conscious mother
starts gaining weight. This happens as
the women abdomen gets extended due to the baby and ,so, starts putting a lot of pressure on her
girdle. After child birth this extended muscle fibre is not going to contract
or loosen overnight . Women gain huge emotional
upheaval due to this disfigure of their body shape. Women are advised to continue their exercise
after 2 weeks of their child birth. Exercise must not be that extensive that
puts pressure on the already sored body. Women can always wear postpartum
support belt to tighten the loosened
body. Celebrity like Jessica Alba have
started using double corset as an exercise
belt to tighten her abdomen after postpartum recovery. Jessica Alba in
her interview also suggested that she used almost 14 to 16 hours per day to
gain her pre pregnancy shape. She is now
a mother of two and have managed to recover her original shape. She also
proclaims that her good body shape after c-section
incision is allowing her to overcome her heavy swaying emotions.
