Hopefully you have already read my post, ‘I’m Pregnant…What Nutritional Products Should I Take?‘ and you realize that I had the best pregnancy ever when using Shaklee Nutritional Products. The good news however is looking after my health as a mom did not stop the day that baby was born, it was really just beginning! Once that baby takes its first breath, our health is even more important in order to continue to provide the healthiest life possible to our new addition.
You are sleep deprived (big time), many of us make the excellent choice to nurse our baby (I did), we may have other young children running around (I had 3 plus baby) using our limited energy not to mention we also have that husband that requires us to still be an important part of their lives as well (the nerve of them). We need to be sure that we are taking the proper steps to be sure that we as ‘Super Mom’ are in the best health possible to take on each day. Watch below to learn what Dr. Jamie McManus, Shaklee Chairman of Medical Affairs, Health Sciences and Education shares with us about ‘Nutrition for Mothers’.
I will be the first one to tell you that sometimes even with the best nutrition possible on your side, you can run into troubles those first few months after child birth. For me, I had extreme issues with Mastitis with every one of my 4 children. I however was determined to breastfeed each of my children! It was nothing new to me come my 4th child as I knew all the early warning signs and I knew to watch for it as I had a history of it. So when the symptoms started 2 weeks after my 4th child was born, I knew that it would likely mean a dose of antibiotics. With my previous children, a round of antibiotics normally gave my body the time to adjust to nursing and I was good to go but not with #4…this time it turned into over 3 months of reoccurring flair ups followed by yet another round of antibiotics, several visits with a lactation consultant, a trip to a lactation specialist, a lot of pain and one very very tired mom of 4!! I was doing everything I could find to do naturally to combat Mastitis and successfully nurse and just when I was ready to give up we discovered the problem. After tests were done on baby, it was found that he actually had picked up Strep Throat and because they were only treating me, he was continuously re-infecting his poor mommy.
You may be wondering, what does this have to do with Nutrition for Moms? It has A LOT to do with the importance of good nutrition in mom. See in my previous children, when I got Mastitis and was put on antibiotics it always lead to the added troubles of yeast infections in mom as well as thrush in the baby. Since I had experience with this whole process before, it was really just expected by both my Dr and myself that thrush would soon be hitting baby #4 just as it did all the others. BUT WAIT, this baby was a Shaklee Baby! I had been on Shaklee Nutrition my entire pregnancy and then continued on a Shaklee Nutrition program post pregnancy as well. Guess what? The more visits I had to the Dr for my Mastitis, the more my Dr and my Lactation Consultant questioned why I had no signs of yeast issues and there was absolutely no signs of thrush in baby. Trust me they checked him over and over because it was so strange he was not having side effects of the antibiotics. TO this day I will swear to you, the only thing that was different was the nutrition program I was on. Lucky for me it included all the important nutrients that I needed to help both me and baby during this rough time. The product that I was taking that I still believe had the biggest impact was Optiflora® Probiotic Complex which was a part of my Shaklee Vitalizer Daily Vita-Strip. Turns out that because I had taken the steps in advance to be sure I was on a good Natural Nutrition Program post ppregnancy I had set myself up to handle the situation that my health was put into. Was battling Mastitis for over 3 months fun? Ummmm, if you have ever experience it then you will totally understand when I say, NOT A CHANCE, IT SUCKED!! But guess what, I hate to know what those three months could have been like had I not been taking the supplements that I was.
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