I am 21, just got hired for a $7 an hour job (almost finished with vet tech college studies)… but I have this terrible urge to have a baby. Almost every girl I went to high school with has/will be a mom recently. I can’t help but be jealous, or is it hormonal? I feel this way mainly before my period starts.

I am not trying to get pregnant (*I didn’t know where else to post this*)… My gyno has said I am at a high risk for miscarriage (and in the summer I went through one, not sure if it was the antibiotics I was on, or the mess up of skipping pills while I was terribly sick and vomited everything back up — including my non-dissolved pills and water), as well as pregnancy complications.

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I have to write an essay about sugar. Here’s my essay so far.
Could i have some feedback?

Sugar
Sugar is very high on the glycemic index. It’s digested quickly and provides calories but has very little nutritional value. There are different kinds of sugar and some are worse than others. Fruit sugar, fructose, is less harmful than refined sugar. People have evolved to like the taste of sugar because the sweetest fruits are often the ones that have the most nutrients.

The average BMI in North America is 27.1, which is overweight. Sugar is clinically proven to cause obesity, which causes heart attacks. Sugar can cause a variety of medical conditions including alcoholism, Multiple sclerosis and ovarian cancer. Sugar also causes skin to age faster. Too much sugar can affect your brain and make it harder for you to learn. It can also cause depression, emotional instability and epilepsy. Sugar is in almost everything we eat, even places where we don’t expect it. Sugar also causes dental carries, because the bacteria in your mouth eat it and produce acid as a by-product when they digest it.

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I refused medication for depression this pregnancy. How can I make sure I don’t have post pardum depression too? i just can’t, I am single and will have 2 kids to take care of after delivery
I am not taking anti depressents for personal reasons. I am depresed this pregnancy.. how what can I do to make sure it stops after labour?

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My first pregnancy was traumatic, as I spent the whole 10 months (a week before I delivered) working for a heartless biotch who constantly stressed me out. Of course I know a good percentage women become depressed during pregnancy, and I had battled depression in my teen/high school years so I was no stranger to the symptoms. I would spend most nights crying alone in bed for no reason at all. My husband did not know why and I had no interest in telling him as most nights, I did not know either. I was detached from my mother, my husband, my friends, my life, etc. Finally after my son was born I began feeling happy until he was about 6 months. I then saw a therapist and worked closely with him and was on homeopathic remedies that worked wonders for me. I stopped taking them as I found out I was pregnant with my second child. The depression has hit me again and I find myself just going through the motions. If I don’t get out of the house during the day I feel trapped, alone, and sad. Today my son and I went to the Lake/Park and this made me feel happy for part of the day. I cleaned when I got home which kept my mind off it. I don’t have many friends and most of them are busy with work/life etc..My husband works late hours and I am usually in bed when he gets home. I spend most nights now sitting on the couch or in bed crying after I put my son to sleep. I feel worthless, (of course tired because of the pregnancy), sad, SO alone, and very anxious.

I can’t go through this with another pregnancy and I just need some advice. I know that they offer SSRI’s for pregnant women and I’ve heard they are safe. I need input from anyone who has been in this situation and prevailed or anyone who was on SSRI’s during their pregnancy and found no harmful side affects on their babies.

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Healthy parents raise emotionally healthy babies and a mother’s influence towards the same is great. No body can deny it. Hence it is imperative that females should have good mental health. The reality is, about 20 to 25 percent of women suffers with depression in their life time against 7 to 12 percent of men. This shows that women are very much prone to depressed than men. Depression strikes older women more often than men

In addition to environmental stressors and psychosocial factors, women are also influenced by biological factors to get depressed. That is why women are much prone to getting depressed than men

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