Just Chatting: My Perinatal Anxiety, Pregnancy Insomnia, and Why I'm Interested in Hypnobirthing

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In this episode, Lina gets emotional on the mic (again) but this
time talking about how her anxiety is getting worse as time goes
on. She shares how she woke up with a panic attack the other
night and what her intrusive thoughts were about. 

Lina talks about how although she feels lucky that she hasn't had
any nausea or food aversions, she's been experiencing perinatal
anxiety and pregnancy insomnia. She talks about she believes that
sleep in the foundation to having good mental health and how the
second sleep deteriorates, everything else seems to go
too. 

Lina talks about why she's interested in hypnobirthing for her
2nd baby. For her first delivery, she suffered from a full body
allergic reaction that her doctors and dermatologists couldn't
diagnose. Through self-diagnosis, she suspects that it was PUPPP
(pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy) that
turned into a postpartum condition. She thinks the postpartum
condition could have been caused by the amount of medication she
was given between induction and the epidural and how her body was
oversensitive and just started to attack itself. 


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