This came as a bit of a shock ladies…. I really don’t think I had truly considered what the after-effects might be of pushing a baby out of my vagina followed by 5 "small" stitches to get things back in shape. The stitches actually and amazingly were almost an afterthought after giving birth but then came my first visit to the bathroom which stung like hell.

Why had no one told me there were things like Sitz baths and little squirty bottles available at the hospital to help with this…

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This recipe I found on a Singaporean motherhood site. Like most of Asia, they believe it is very important to build up a woman’s blood after childbirth. Chicken soup has long been hailed as the solution to tiredness and physical lethargy. If you boil the chicken with its skin on, allow it to cool and lift off the layer of fat that congeals upon cooling, you have a true chicken stock (with a lot less fat!).

This recipe serves 2 people…..

1 young chicken
2 small sweet potatoes (the yellow/orange variety,…

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Yes, I am pregnant, and it’s one of those fairly cold, blustery grey days in Brooklyn and I happened to shop at the coop yesterday and was inspired by my friend to make a fruit crisp. This one uses apples and frozen organic blackberries - tons of Vitamin C, antioxidants and bioflavenoids which has to be good for baby and mama….. OK here goes….

Cut and peel 4 baking apples (I used Mutsu but anything tart and good for baking will work)

2 bags of Cascadian or any other organic frozen blackberries

2…

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I am going to develop this area a lot more, but to help all you westerners understand where my head is going with this, I thought I would let you read Andrew Orr’s article.

Andrew Orr is a fully Qualified Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is a member of the Australian Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Association. He recently returned from Guangxi, China, where he was working extensively in two major hospitals specializing in care for pregnant women.

Post partum refers to the time after childbirth. Following childbirth a women’s condition is…

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I am now in week 29 of my pregnancy and there I am again trying to figure out why I am having such a hard time sleeping at night…. I know this is nature’s way of preparing me for sleepless night but still, I have to find some relief here. It seems 78% of women have insomnia and sleep problems during pregnancy…. anything from anxiety, leg cramps, not being able to find a comfortable spot, frequent trips to the bathroom, it all seems to be in a night’s work… And…

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I think the important thing to remember here, is that you will eventually regain the desire to have sex. Keep that in your mind as you go through the first few weeks and sometimes months feeling like sex is the last thing on your mind. You have to realize, you are going through a massive transformation. I know personally, after my pregnancy, it took me at least three months to feel as if I was even half myself and even then, I was deeply immersed in distorted sleeping hours, pounds…

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By now you may have heard about Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) AKA THE GOOD FATS that are necessary for health and cannot be manufactured by the body. I first heard about them after 9/11 when I was feeling, there is no better word for it, toxic, and was looking for a boost. I met with a kinesiologist in New York called Michael Konig, who uses applied kinesiology for nutritional analysis. In his own words, he explains the principles behind Kinesiology:

"Think of the body as a complex electrical system. Nutritional deficit…

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