Mind and Body After Baby

What Changes after Having a Baby?

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During pregnancy and after having a baby, the mind and body go through many changes due to the hormonal fluctuations and weight gain. New mothers may experience both mental and physical changes. Some of the physical changes are areas of fat redistribution especially around the abdomen, love handles, buttocks, hips, back and thighs. Some women may also experience saggy skin around the abdomen area as the uterus reduces in size. Some women may experience melasma, also known as the pregnancy mask, which is a deep discoloration that occurs in the skin and is worsened by the sun. Other common problems are unwanted hair, varicose veins, spider veins and stretch marks.

The less spoken changes are the mental, emotional and spiritual changes after having a baby. There is tremendous joy in having a baby and a deep recognition that you need to do as much as possible to help this little person grow into a successful person. It drives you, the new mother to do more and be a better person. However this is challenging in the midst of the constant fatigue from not sleeping, the change in your routine, not having time for your partner or yourself, as well as the normal hormonal changes that are occurring in your body.

For new mothers this constant need to do everything they were doing before and now raise a baby can be difficult, but by optimizing the mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health of a woman, she can take on these challenges with more ease.

Problems and Treatment Options:
Achieving Optimal Health: The extra stress on a new mom can increase the aging and degenerative process but by optimizing health, new moms can have more energy and balance in their life. We offer a comprehensive personal health strategy to help new moms due this by evaluating their nutrition, exercise program, mindfulness, supplements and hormone optimization.

Nutritional Consultation:
Most new moms have weight they need to lose and energy they need to improve on. Learning about the best nutritional concepts to help lose weight, slow down the aging process and optimize health is available as well as further testing on food sensitivities if necessary.

Physical Changes

Fat bulges and cellulite: The new Accent Laser is the deepest FDA approved laser that penetrates deep inside to target the fat cells and help reshape the body. Areas that can be treated are the abdomen, love handles, hips, buttocks, thighs, and back fat. Optimal results require approximately 6 sessions.

Saggy skin and stretch marks: These problems occur after rapid weight gain and growth that exceeds normal tissue capability. The best treatment is to use the combination of the Accent Laser and Pixel Resurfacing Laser. This combination helps to tighten the skin while building new collagen and elastin to reduce the stretch marks and loose skin.

Discoloration: This can come from hormonal changes and sun damage. A series of Fotofacials or The Pixel Laser helps break up the discoloration to blend hyperpigmented areas.

Unwanted hair: During pregnancy and after delivery, women realize that unwanted hair becomes a nuisance. We offer laser hair removal on any part of the body for all skin tones.

Spider Veins and Varicose veins: These bigger and smaller veins come from the enlarged uterus and can be treated after an evaluation with sclerotherapy and or laser treatments.