Welcome to the pregnancy honeymoon-phase – the second trimester! You have made it through the first trimester, you are feeling way better (hopefully) and you have finally told your loved ones that you’re expecting! It’s an exciting time. If you have checked out my First Trimester Survival Kit article, you’ll know that my first trimester felt pretty rough. I promise that you’ll forget how bad it was in just a few weeks ;) In this Blog post, I am sharing the products and habits[...]
Congratulations, you are pregnant! It’s an exciting time for many, and it also comes with a lot of symptoms and side effects that no one really told you about. Or, people told you, but you didn’t imagine it to be this bad. Until you find yourself hanging over the toilet seat multiple times a day and eating nothing but ginger candy and toast, because everything else sounds awful. If you’re currently in the first trimester, I promise that it gets better (or, you know, the[...]
Before I dive into my own experience and what helped me cope, let’s start with the symptoms of prenatal anxiety and depression, so that you can see if any of them sound familiar (source) What are some signs of depression and anxiety? Women with depression or anxiety around pregnancy tell us that they feel: Extremely sad or angry without warningFoggy or have trouble completing tasks"Robotic," like they are just going through the motionsVery anxious around the baby and their oth[...]