Fatigue/Stress

Delivery may be a natural process, but along with it each mother experience stress and tiredness to different degrees. Recovering from delivery may take some time. The length of labor hours and the rest you had before delivery are important factors that decide the degree of tiredness.

If the delivery was without complication then sooner will be your recovery. Stress and anxiety after delivery is very common. The main reason being decreased hormonal level. Every woman has a feeling that being a new mother, is a very big responsibility and a   challenging task. This is not wrong but you need to remember that taking someone's help is not wrong. Remember the following to cope-up with stress.

In a study conducted by the Center for Disease Control, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were compared with individuals who did not have indications of CFS, but who also displayed sedentary lifestyles.

Interestingly, when muscle oxygen delivery for both CFS subjects and the control subjects was measured immediately following exercise, it was determined that there was a significant oxygen reduction to the muscles of those with CFS.

Though the results do suggest that CFS patients receive reduced oxygen levels to their muscles, which also explains the pain and fatigue CFS patients report in their muscles, further testing is warranted.

1. Feeling exhausted is not sin, take some rest.

2. Sleep is necessary not only for your baby but also for you.

3. Being anxious is ok but don't do anything in hurry.

4. Remember you need energy to take care of yourself and your baby so eating small meals at intervals would be more useful.

5. Take someone's help in taking care of a child. Take advice from any elder.

6. Your child needs your attention so does your own body. Do simple exercise and try to lose body weight that has been put during your pregnancy time.

Currently, patients are diagnosed with CFS only after other illnesses have been eliminated and varying degrees of pain, malaise, and fatigue have lasted for six months or more. Patients also must display at least four of the following issues:

• Substantial impairment in concentration and/or short term memory loss
• Tenderness of the throat (sore throat)
• Tender lymph nodes
• All over muscle pain
• Multi-joint pain without swelling or redness
• Headaches that follow a new pattern or be more severe than usual
• Insomnia, or waking after a full night of sleep and still feeling tired
• Malaise lasting more than a full day

If and when all avenues have been explored, and still no clean diagnosis has been determined, it may be time to ask about CFS. The sooner you are diagnosed, the sooner you can get better.

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