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Reply to "Reducing Toxic Stress in Pregnancy"

1. Neurofeedback is extremely helpful if you can get it.  Very very relaxing.  "Neuroptimal" is a really easy, effort free NF system.  It made a giant difference to a youth I mentor.  It takes about 6-8 sessions to be noticed and a full course of treatment is about 20-30 sessions.

2.  Talk to your baby....  Tell your baby he/she is safe, loved, warm, growing, protected, held, cared for, beautiful, wanted.   "I am feeling stressed right now, but you are very safe, I've got you, you are loved, and you are not the source of my stress."

3.  Sing to your baby!!   If you sing the same lullaby or or gentle song now, the baby will recognize it later!   And singing calms the singer too.  :-)

4.  Work on getting full deep slow breaths.  All the way down into your belly.  Every breath can bring healing all the way in to the core of you.  My Naturopathic doc recommends 100 really deep conscious breaths per day! 

5.  Consider joining a support group.  La Leche League has free mother-to-mother support and welcomes all pregnant women and new moms to meetings.  Meetings happen each week in most areas.  1-800-LA LECHE   You can get a head start on learning about breast feeding, and also have a place to go to realize how normal a lot of the up and down emotions of motherhood are.

6.  Consider wearing your baby in a soft sling.  Movement/walking/jouncing/carrying is VERY regulating to a baby.  In one study merely giving half the moms slings to use DOUBLED the rate of secure attachment in those babies.  Babies love to be held and carried.  I used to put my baby in a sling when cooking, cleaning, doing errands, etc.   

Your love and concern for you baby tell me you will be a good mom!  Just love on that baby and do your best to communicate:  "I see you, I hear you, I love you, and I've got your back."

 

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