Weaning is a change from one type of food to another. It’s also the term usually used to describe how a child moves on from breastfeeding to either a bottle, a cup, or solid food. When to Start Weaning The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and the continuation of breastfeeding along with the introduction of solid foods until your child’s first birthday and beyond....
The latest research shows that the more cesarean surgeries you have, the riskier the subsequent surgeries become for you and your baby. But circumstances vary from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy and play a role in determining whether the benefits of a repeat C-section outweigh the risks. Experts recommend having no more than three C-sections in a lifetime. Risks of complications increase with each subsequent C-section, and these risks increase even faster after a person has their third C-section....
On Wednesday, September 1, a new law in Texas went into effect prohibiting a woman’s right to have an abortion after six weeks. Fetal heartbeats are usually detected by ultrasound at about six to seven weeks of pregnancy, says Tamika Cross, MD, FACOG, an OB/GYN based in Houston and co-owner of Serenity Women’s Health & Med Spa. Key Takeaways A Texas law bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, which is before many people know they are pregnant....
Are you considering involuntary hospitalization for depression for someone you care about? You may be wondering what you can do. You may not even be sure if hospitalization is really necessary. The following is meant to answer some of the questions that you may have when making the difficult decision to commit someone to a mental hospital against their will. When Involuntary Hospitalization Becomes Necessary If your loved one is experiencing symptoms such as severe depression, suicidal urges, mania, or psychosis, it can have a devastating impact on them and the people around them....
Follow Now: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts Every Monday on The Verywell Mind Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Amy Morin, LCSW, interviews authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think, feel, and do their best in life. Meet Jay Glazer Jay Glazer hosts Fox Sports’ award-winning NFL pregame show, FOX NFL Sunday. He’s developed a reputation for breaking major stories in the NFL throughout the year and he’s become the “go-to” reporter for gaining accurate information about football updates....
It’s common for young children to need a bit of help with reading, writing, and math. The early grades are seeing increasing pressure from standardized tests and homework and more emphasis on academics. This is the reason why many parents and education experts are calling kindergarten “the new first grade.” If your first-grader is struggling with math, take steps now to help them feel more confident and strengthen their math skills so that they can have a strong foundation from which to move forward....
While body positivity was once considered an ideal way to cultivate relationships with our bodies, a newer term, body neutrality, is now considered a healthier way of engaging with our physical selves. This is because body positivity can be a difficult task for people with marginalized bodies, and also because the movement was co-opted by influencers who were cisgender, non-disabled, thin White women. This article discusses the aims of the body neutrality movement and how it differs from body positivity....
Parents can quickly grow frustrated when faced with a whiny baby or toddler. They’re often not sure how to respond to whining and how get a child to stop. And whining can seem near-constant with toddlers who are still developing verbal skills. This is one of those stages that can be very challenging for a parent or caregiver. Your child isn’t talking (much) yet, so it’s hard to figure out what they need....
Although there’s no way to eliminate life’s challenges completely, using humor to cope with stress can be a healthy, effective habit. It’s not difficult, given the absurdities that pepper the average day. It just requires a bit of practice in shifting your perspective. How Humor Helps A sense of humor can build resilience to stress and improve your overall physical and emotional health. It can also help you: Bond with others Look at things in a different way Normalize your experience Keep your relationships strong Maintain good health Retain and share information Help increase work satisfaction Laughter therapy actually has been shown to reduce the physiological markers of stress and can be an effective adjunct to pharmacological treatment....
What Is Hypomania? Hypomania is characterized by overactive energy, mood, behavior, and activity levels significantly different from your normal state of mind. These mood episodes are usually shorter in duration and less severe than mania. Hypomania is a potential symptom of bipolar disorder, particularly bipolar II disorder. A hypomanic episode commonly manifests with unusual gaiety, excitement, flamboyance, or irritation, along with other characteristics such as inflated self-esteem, extreme talkativeness, increased distractibility, reduced need for sleep, and racing thoughts....
Individuals with ADHD tend to show their emotions easily. They often have a hard time managing their feelings, especially when it comes to difficult emotions like anger. When a person has trouble monitoring his mood and regulating his feelings, he can become frustrated quite quickly, be short-tempered, snappy, and unpredictable. Difficulty regulating emotions combined with problems in impulse control can result in some major blow-ups. This can create a lot of stress and hurt feelings in relationships since the partner/spouse of the ADHD individual is often the one who bears the brunt of these outbursts....
When it comes to lust and love, most people have experienced at least one or the other. However, with that being said, some people might agree that experiencing both in a relationship is pretty rare. Whether you’ve always thought of your relationship in terms of one or the other or even if you’re just wondering how to tell the difference between the two, there are some important things to know about both of these feelings....
Migraine headaches can be debilitating. Due to socio-cultural pressures on men to show strength and vitality and the long-held bias by physicians about this disease, migraine has been relegated to being a “mere” woman’s disorder. What Is a Migraine? Some people get auras or visual cues right before the onset of a migraine. Other symptoms include: Men are not reporting symptoms or seeking out treatment for these incapacitating headaches though they are adversely affected by them....
A key to providing support to areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic might be found in a recreational vehicle (yes, the same kind you might take on a cross-country road trip), according to a new study. Key Takeaways Researchers from the University of Maryland transformed an RV into a traveling treatment center for opioid use disorder.A recent trial showed the RV was as successful as traditional brick-and-mortar clinics at providing treatment....
Negative thinking can contribute to problems such as social anxiety, depression, stress, and low self-esteem. The key to changing your negative thoughts is to understand how you think now (and the problems that result), then use strategies to change these thoughts or make them have less of an effect. “Our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are all linked, so our thoughts impact how we feel and act. So, although we all have unhelpful thoughts from time to time, it’s important to know what to do when they appear so we don’t let them change the course of our day,” explains Rachel Goldman, PhD, a psychologist and clinical assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine....
Opioid use disorder (also referred to as opioid addiction) is a diagnosis that was introduced in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). The diagnosis combines two disorders from the previous edition of the DSM (DSM-IV-TR): opioid dependence and opioid abuse. Although the generic term “opioid” is given in the DSM-5, the diagnostic guidelines indicate that the actual opioid drug being used by the individual should be specified in the diagnosis....
The typical positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinatory experiences or fixed delusional beliefs, tend to be very upsetting and disruptive—not a positive experience at all for you or someone you care about who is experiencing them. From the outside, a person with positive symptoms might seem distracted, as if they are listening to something (psychiatrists call this “responding to internal stimuli”). So why are these types of symptoms called “positive”?...
What Is Postpartum PTSD? Welcoming a baby into your life is usually thought of as a happy and exciting event. But for some of us, the experience of giving birth and becoming a parent can be frightening, disorienting, and even traumatizing. Between 3-16% of postpartum parents experience postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which is characterized by anxiety, panic attacks, agitation, nightmares, and flashbacks. Postpartum PTSD is usually associated with a traumatic birthing experience but may also link to having a previous diagnosis of PTSD, experiencing infertility, or giving birth to a baby with health complications....
What Is Retrograde Amnesia? Retrograde amnesia is a form of memory loss that involves an inability to access memories formed before the onset of amnesia. It is caused by damage to the regions of the brain associated with memory storage. It affects retrograde memory, which is defined as information that occurred before a particular point in time, such as the onset of a brain injury or other type of condition....
Self-harm involves self-inflicted, non-suicidal bodily harm that is severe enough to either cause tissue damage or to leave marks that last several hours. Cutting is the most common form of self-injury but burning, head banging, and scratching are also common. Other forms of self-harm include biting, skin picking, hair pulling, hitting the body with objects, or hitting objects with the body. Symptoms Self-harm is not always easy to detect because people often try to hide it....
