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Well, I am trying my best to really work up my baby fever so that I am motivated to go off my medications and get healthy as soon as possible. This is not hard to do. Because I advertise my business in big pregnancy and newborn magazines, I get an overflow of baby stuff in my mailbox each month. On top of that, I am a baby photographer, I teach mommy and me yoga, and occasionally am a birth doula, so I spend several days a week with newborns, babies and bellies. Here are a few from a shoot I did today. Tell me you don’t want a baby when looking at this sweet boy!
I really want to try to have a baby the next time I ovulate, so I have two weeks to totally change my lifestyle around. My biggest challenge has been Clonazepam (aka Klonopin) which is a benzodiazepine and a category D pregnancy drug, which means DO NOT TAKE IT if you are trying to conceive or if you are pregnant. The studies are inconclusive, but it is not worth the risk in any way.
I started taking this drug to help with my crohn’s disease. Reducing anxiety in crohn’s patients has been shown to drastically reduce the amount and severity of flare-ups. I know my body-I get sick only when I am really stressed out or not sleeping well. So…it worked well for me. Except that now, when I don’t have it, I have panic attacks-which I did not before going on this medication.
I have slowly weaned myself off of it for the last two months, though, knowing I wanted to have a baby. I could not just go cold turkey-it has been known to cause seizures when stopped abruptly. I am *almost* off it, but when I have a bad day I feel like I need it. So…my goal is to be off it in a week. Wish me luck
Here are a few other ones I have done in the last few weeks (working.up.my.baby.fever).
