Dr. Tabatha Barber lists postpartum problems doctors dismiss as normal: hair loss, anxiety, thyroid changes, painful sex, urinary leakage, stubborn weight gain, depression. These persist months after birth and go undiagnosed because postpartum care misses the hormonal shifts behind them.
What happened after you had your babies? Did your hair fall out and never completely come back? Did you become anxious for the first time? Did you develop constipation that you didn't struggle with before? What about your thyroid? Did it start acting differently? And did your periods become heavier? I hear that all the time. Okay. Lastly, did you develop insulin resistance after having gestational diabetes and just assumed it was all normal? We're going to talk about sex being painful, leaking urine, that weight you can't lose, so many crazy things, depression, which is something I struggled with. It is not just a postpartum issue, ladies. This continues on way after postpartum.
I started to realize, wait a minute, if all these women are having problems that started around these major hormonal shifts, in their lives and it's not getting diagnosed until now, it means that there is something majorly missing in postpartum care.
