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Pregnancy and Mental Health


Infertility, IVF and Miscarriage
Article by Joy Wisdom Any loss is devastating for couples in maternity. A successful outcome is all we want, and millions of successful conceptions take place each year. However, there are a large percentage who find conception a trial with no particular reason or understanding. Expectation dashed, disappointments and anxiety can be part of the unsuccessful outcome. Today, Miscarriage happens to a large percentage of the population and a global issue. In UK we have excepti
Joy Wisdom
Oct 12, 20223 min read


IVF
Article by Joy Wisdom Undoubtedly, several decades of IVF assisted conception has been seen as a boon for couples who find it a challenge to conceive. However, success is not guaranteed in IVF fertility. Miscarriage is an outcome from IVF too. And to some extent the roll out of IVF can be a traumatic roller coaster for couples. With ongoing IVF cycles, costly and unsuccessful. The drive for the outcome is all consuming and from JWT perspective the internal state of the woman
Joy Wisdom
Oct 11, 20222 min read


Miscarriage a global issue
Miscarriage is a global issue, with some countries having higher miscarriage rates than others. The word ‘miscarriage’ is defined as a spontaneous loss of pregnancy before 24 weeks. There is no common reason why some women miscarry and in most cases prevention cannot be helped medically. Each year, hundreds of thousands of women in the UK are affected by miscarriage effecting 10% – 20% of all confirmed pregnancies, during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. Unfortunately,
Joy Wisdom
Aug 31, 20222 min read


Emotional pain and depression – true facts and solutions by Joy Wisdom
In 2017, Harvard university announced, pain especially chronic pain, is an emotional condition as well as a physical sensation. It is a complex experience that affects through mood and behaviour, can lead to isolation, immobility and drug dependence. Pain is depressing, and depression causes intensifies pain. People with chronic pain have three times the average risk of developing psychiatric symptoms, such as mood or anxiety disorders. Depressed individuals have three times
Joy Wisdom
Jul 18, 20224 min read


Mirror Image
Mirror Image – Facts and Solutions to Inherited Generational Trauma and Absorption (IGTA). By Joy Wisdom Ground-breaking factual exploration as to how we behave, why we live mental health issues, how clinical conversion and utero is involved. Subconscious drives hidden aspects happening to us daily. Packed with case studies and a New Therapy solution. Today psychological influences are an all-time high. We are living a critical stage of evolution. If we want good health, to
Joy Wisdom
Jul 13, 20225 min read


Mental Health week blog by Joy Wisdom
Mental health does not just arrive. It will have been slowly building over time. Strikes all ages from young to old. Maternity, miscarriage and fertility are also involved in long term psychological issues. A topic that is under reported and underestimated. The numbers of PND/PTSD suffers from maternity torment has plagued couples and women for decades. The loss and grief is unsurmountable and individuals do not get over their adverse trauma. Logic tells us that if a woman
Joy Wisdom
Jul 13, 20222 min read


Miscarriage and Infertility
Thousands of women have miscarriage every day. The charity Tommy’s say 23 million women miscarry yearly worldwide. (2021 stats) Some women are aware of the event while others are oblivious. When talking to women of all ages they have their own story of miscarriage or pregnancy issues. Most will keep it a secret. Unable to explain the extent of emotional loss and grief. What is common is that women appear to have dealt with it, carry on, yet unbeknown to them underlying em
Joy Wisdom
Jul 13, 20227 min read


Termination
Miscarriage and termination is not fully understood. Certainly, the US supreme court changes of Row v Wade has shaken women to the core. And it brought back my feelings and loneliness. Receiving descension within my family with no understanding of why, from my own termination. My experience of a termination came from medical reasons, in 1979. It was a harrowing experience. I was treated like a leper in hospital. Staff seemed to make up their minds I was out of order due to
Joy Wisdom
Jul 11, 20222 min read
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