Did you know that pregnancy gives around 10% of a mom’s mineral stores to her baby? This is one reason why moms are at higher risk for mineral depletion. Along with factors like a history of under-eating, chronic stress, lack of sleep, and more, moms are commonly deficient. Focusing on replenishing minerals can help to restore health and vitality in motherhood, especially with the right test to get a full picture of your body’s stores. Here’s how.
Read MoreMaybe you’re not actually ‘lost’ in motherhood. Maybe you’re just in a season so immersive, so all-encompassing, that you haven’t had the space to come up for air—let alone rediscover who you are now. That doesn’t make you broken. It makes you a mom navigating something really big.
Read MoreAll those changes you go through when you become a mom? That internal and external transformation- even turmoil- you feel in the time before, during, and after pregnancy? It’s not all in your head. And there’s nothing wrong with you for experiencing it, even struggling through.
There’s actually a word for it: Matrescence.
And it’s time we talk about and normalize it so women don’t feel so alone and can get the help they need to not just survive through it, but thrive.
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