Research help: You, Your Body and Your Life Post Pregnancy

[No Limits]

Hi Everyone

I am writing to find out what your major concerns about your life and your body have been post pregnancy.

I am particularly interested to hear from real life people as opposed to studies.

Have the following things affected you as a result of having a baby, being a mum, accomodating for children in your life?

Did your body change for better or worse?
Did you experience issues with wieght not previously encountered?
Did it take a significant amount of time for your body to recover? If so how long?
Did you experience negative impacts on your sex life and your sex drive?
Were you able to find information on this? Was it difficult/easy?


Did you return back to the workfore? What did you like or dislike about returning to the workforce?
Were you or have you been successful in keeping a balance betwenn work and home?
What is the biggest drain on your energy, time with regard to being a working parent?

Have you expereinced a relationship breakdown since becoming a parent?
Have you relied on any external resources, services to assist you during that time?

Have you experienced dating while being a single parent?
Have you ever experinced blending a family - where you and your partner both have children?

If you answered YES to any of these questions:

1 Are you going through any of these issues currently?

2 Do you have a support base you can rely on to help you through this?

3 What is the one thing you feel you need the most right now with respect to your life and/or your body?[B]

4 What knowledge do you have now that could have helped you before?

5 What area(s) of your life or your health, mind and body do you feel you still could use some help or would like more information on?

6 As a parent with needs have you identified WHAT your needs are and HOW you get them met?

7 In terms of information available what subjects do you feel are covered the least or have the least amount available?

Thank you for your time and your comments. If you would like to know final statistics of respondents please let me know.

[draught]

Before we respond - who are you, what are you researching, what will you use the information for and will identifying information be attached to responses? In other words - a bit more info please??????!!!

[No Limits]

Hi and thanks for your response.

My name is Jenny and I'm a Mum to my daughter Charlie who is 5.

I am doing this "research" for private use only and am not looking to use any identifying information for anything at all. I am simply interested in two things.

1 To find out more about women.

I would like to know who women are as a collective, what women go through, how they cope, what they need and whether they actively work to get their needs met. How they think and what bits of knowledge they have collected along the way that has made life easier, more interesting, more motivating, difficult, triumphant, exhaustive and phenomenal for them as women and as mothers.


The questions I have asked are spwan from my own experiences in all those areas. I am not alone in the many women who have experienced being in a relationship, having a child, the relationship breaking down and being a single parent all before I have even hit 30 years of age.

That in itself gives you a whirlwind of knowledge and life lessons. Most of those I had to learn for myself. There was no 'tribe' or womenfolk i could go to to ask about any of those stages. At best there was tidbits of information or advice that I got given here and there to help me through.

Not to long ago on an episode of Desperate Housewives one of the women broke down in tears declaring what a horrible mother she was, how uncontrollable her kids were and how it was all too much. She looked around at other mums and they all seem to cope just fine.

What she discovered through her confession is that all the other mums were not fine at all. They all had their moments of not coping and falling to pieces. To which she cried " Why didn't you guys tell me? You all look like you have everything under control"

My truth as a women I find it difficult to ask for help. The day I learnt to everything changed for me. There have been other significant lessons also. If this is the case for me, how many women out there could use the knowledge that I have?

How many out there could save you or I the heartache of learning a particular lesson on our own. Fact is women have been having babies since Eve, but we've stopped sharing the stories, the lessons and the joys.

Finding out what women want is looking into women's hearts, seeing what they want for themselves their families and their communities and sharing our individual and valued experiences of life - the lessons and the joys.

What will I do with the information beyond the sharing? I will offer a range a free tools resources and workshops tailored to meet what is lacking in women's lives and I will look for others who have the same wants as I - to fill those needs. To give women more and better options and to give them tools and resources that will alllow them to be independent and free in those choices.

What could be better than living the life you want at its full potential?

[razzle]

What will I do with the information beyond the sharing? I will offer a range a free tools resources and workshops tailored to meet what is lacking in women's lives and I will look for others who have the same wants as I - to fill those needs. To give women more and better options and to give them tools and resources that will alllow them to be independent and free in those choices.

I'm not sure I feel entirely comfortable with you using OUR experiences to benefit YOUR business. This site is filling the needs of quite a few women already....

[Maxs_MumMy]

Yes im with you on this one Boomtish. For someone to ask those "personal" questions they wanna be using it for TRUE research.

Cheers

[madvoice]

I'm also wary of this.

[wattle]

Bit sus. I think you might be in the wrong place.

[petster]

Fact is women have been having babies since Eve, but we've stopped sharing the stories, the lessons and the joys

I don't think that's true (the sharing that is, not the Eve bit :D )... The stories, lessons and joys are here for the sharing on Bub Hub - that's what it's all about!!

Cheers!

[madvoice]

I don't think that's true (the sharing that is, not the Eve bit :D )... The stories, lessons and joys are here for the sharing on Bub Hub - that's what it's all about!!

Cheers!

Hear hear :)

[razzle]

Yep... closing it down....