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Women's Stories
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Kim
Crist
You just had a beautiful, healthy baby.
You’re supposed to be overwhelmed with joy ... right? Despite
society’s expectation of new mothers to be blissfully happy after
the arrival of a new baby, nearly all women experience the “baby
blues” in the weeks after childbirth. In addition, 10-15 percent of
women experience a full-blown clinical depression – called
postpartum depression – after childbirth.
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Kim's Story
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Sonya Sue Brown
Imagine having a bad flu virus. Every muscle in your body aches and you’re
so exhausted you can barely move. Now imagine feeling like you have a flu
virus all the time. Not a pretty picture, is it? This is how people with
fibromyalgia describe their condition – like a perpetual flu.
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Sonya's Story
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Karen Raab
For more than five years, Karen Raab’s life revolved around her menstrual
cycle. In her early 30s, her periods began increasing in frequency and
severity, stretching to 11 days at a time with only three weeks between
cycles.
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Sara Skopec
One might think that the home of a
family with five children under the age of 11 would be absolute
pandemonium, but the Skopec home in Bolivar is anything but. The
house couldn’t be more tidy and 10-year-old Caleb and 8-year-old
quadruplets Ryan, Kyle, Seth and Kathryn couldn’t be more polite and
respectful. However, “calm” didn’t exactly
describe Steve and Sara after their first doctor’s appointment for
what they thought was going to be their second child in 1996.
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Kim Huang
"I had had problems
throughout my pregnancy with Alyssa. I started out with high blood
pressure, and as the pregnancy progressed, it kept getting higher
and higher. We knew there was going to be a problem."
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