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When talking about their partners, many men say "she's never been the same since she had the baby"
Along with the the joy a new baby usually brings, approximately 1 in 5 women will experience prenatal or postnatal depression, anxiety or mood swings usually relating to the hormonal changes at this time.
Some women or their partners will have had previous issues such as Bipolar illness, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders and a range of other disorders or social problems which impact on their parenting and relationships. Parenting new babies can be difficult at times for many reasons.
Many couples have separated as a result of such problems, lost their careers, income, broken up their families and children suffer, not realising that now with the Babycoach program there is a lot that can be done to prevent problems where possible also finding good solutions to problems as quickly as possible...whether it is a breastfeeding issue or any other of the problems that arise.
Research has shown consistently that having a midwife care for you throughout your whole pregnancy, birth and early weeks with your baby....gives the safest outcome for the mother and also the baby. Midwives seek to keep birth a normal but special event in a woman's life.
As we know, there are many women who need to have some specialist care or intervention from an obstetrician along the way - but again the research shows that continuous care and guidance from the midwife throughout this time, will reduce the impact of these interventions. Especially when you choose a midwife such as Babycoach who is also experienced with pre and postnatal disorders.
With many women getting fragmented care, either through private or public hospitals, women and their partners are often falling through the gaps. What may look like great services and facilities, in actual fact do not deliver always what people need.
For instance in the case of pre & postnatal depression, parents often ask why they were not told there could sometimes be some major problems with mums and dads adjusting to the pregnancy and birth of their babies. They say they should have been more fully prepared and received better help and information.
Babycoach's aim is to close these many service gaps - reducing the stress often associated with pregnancy, birth and early parenting, Rosemary achieves this through a series of specially designed workshops and individualised support.
Most women (and men) will experience some difficulties coping with the changes pregnancy and new parenting will bring to the family. They will usually adjust and start to cope within a short period of time.
- Emotional and other difficulties in becoming pregnant
- Deciding care providers - midwife, obstetrician, high or low risk?
- confusion and problems with choices available
- Pregnancy discomforts - heartburn, nausea etc.
- Relationship,housing, financial issues
- High risk complications of pregnancy eg. high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia, prem. labour, heart, kidney, or thyroid disease and baby or placenta in a difficult position for birth etc.
- Not having the type of pregnancy, birth or outcome you had planned
- Baby needing special nursery care / separated from parents/ transferred interstate
- Physical problems with mum - may need blood transfusions or intensive care
- Separated from loved ones eg. Defence forces or family away at time of birth
- Breastfeeding issues and formula choices
- Crying - yours and baby's !
- Tiredness, anger, irritability,lack of sex drive,inability to organise your day,
- Pain of sutures, infection, mastitis, abscesses
- Needing to return to hospital as a result of birth or postnatal complication - eg need for D& C operation or for IV antibiotics
- Over concerned about baby's wellbeing or not showing interest in baby or other children
- Baby not putting on weight or other health issues
