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Discover the Yello or “Blues” in You: Post Pregnancy
Happy Mother's Day
As writers we all share a common goal of telling a story. It is our awesome responsibility to communicate successfully to our readers information of all kinds.
I strongly believe that the function of both writers and journalists are very relevant in today’s society.
According to Louis D. Brandeis who was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, “The function of the press is extremely important. To mistake or suppress the news is in breach of trust.”
However, I believe that although journalists try to honor and protect their carefully won independence from party and commercial pressures, they must be careful not to get detached from the outside pressures which could bleed into disengagement from the community.
What’s your story and why do you like yellow? When I see the color yellow- I think happy!
According to my latest research-the color yellow relates to acquired knowledge. It is the color which resonates with the left or logic side of the brain, stimulating our mental faculties and creating mental agility and perception.
Being the lightest hue of the spectrum, the color psychology of yellow is uplifting and illuminating, offering hope, happiness, cheerfulness and fun. In the meaning of colors, yellow inspires original thought and inquisitiveness.
Yellow is creative from a mental aspect, the color of new ideas, helping us to find new ways of doing things. It is the practical thinker, not the dreamer. Yellow is also the most highly visible of all colors which is why it is used for pedestrian crossings. Cool!
The color yellow in the Bible also refers to God’s glory (Ezekiel 1:4) or the brightness of Christ (Revelation 21:23). Yellow can also refer to God’s fire (Hebrew’s 12:29) or judgment (Genesis 19:24). Yellow is used to describe the color of gold (Psalm 68:13).
1 Corinthians 14:13-25
13 For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
15 So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.
16 Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying?
17 You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
19 But in the church, I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.
21 In the Law it is written:
“With other tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then, they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?
24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgement by all,
25 as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So, they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”
The Yello Cayman Team placed special emphasis on education and our children in the 2018 directory, featuring the history of our education system, what it means to be a teacher, showcasing all of our youth associations and the multiple businesses who generously invested in education.
Personally however, I have come to realize that in order to promote and create equity ($$$) in an educational context and provide dividends; we teachers need to ‘understand’ how our students learn and how this is affected by their physical, intellectual, linguistic, social, cultural and emotional development.
Therefore, I’d like to upgrade my lesson to include the following features:
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A student of Innovation or Creativity should be able solve problems, create products or raise issues in a domain that is initially novel but is eventually accepted in one or more cultural setting.
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Such performances may include a student knowing the basics of marketing and creating a website like the following: https://teneishajohnson.wixsite.com/dream/
Creating standard blogs like the following:
https://teneishajohnsondream.wordpress.com or
https://teneishajohnsonhasadream.home.blog/
(For more detailed information read: Building a WordPress Blog people want to read, Second Edition by Scott McNulty) or
http://thinkr.xyz/members/teneishajohnson/
(For more detailed information read:
Create your own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to start blogging like a Pro by Tris Hussey or go to the book’s blog where you can post questions in the forum at www.sixbloggingprojects.com for updates since her book was published.
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You may also wish to create beautiful and fun artwork for a charitable cause.
See follow link:
The above are just a few examples of tools or art work created or used to gather and disperse information, while displaying creativity and skill all at the same time!
Discovery Day in the Cayman Islands
On the third Monday of every May, the people of the Cayman Islands celebrate the discovery of their islands by Christopher Columbus in 1503. This year, Discovery Day will be on the 20th May 2019.
According to historical records, on May 10th 1503, it was recorded that Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters.
Labor Day: Our Caribbean Neighbors
Also, during the month of May, many other Caribbean countries like Montserrat, Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Saba, Curacao, St. Maarten, Grenada and St. Lucia will recognized what is known as Labor Day.
However due to 2017’s volatile hurricane season, many of them are still truly laboring to build back their homeland.
Many places like Anguilla suffered catastrophic damage after the passing of Hurricane Irma.
Many Government Infrastructures were demolished, Parliamentary buildings flattened, Hospitals and Schools swept away after the hurricane had finished its devastation.
See the following link for updates on their recovery: https://www.islands.com/caribbean-hurricane-recovery-update
The Observance of Child Month in May
Speaking of Labor, during the entire month of May which is the fifth month, we shall once again celebrate our children!
This May will be the annual observance of Child Month.
During this time a series of events and family activities will take place that help raise awareness of the important roles and different functions of the various people in the community, who help make the Cayman Islands a better place for children.
Did you also know that five means grace or favor? I declare that our children are definitely sovereign favor from the Lord!
I have already started praying in earnest for young boys and girls to rise up and take their rightful place in a society that may instigate and perpetuate havoc with their ignorance and innocence.
Even though they may be earnest and young, may they find God’s purpose for their life and grow in confidence and love towards one another.
Photo by Dominic Lipinski/ Getty Images
The Royal family welcomed a new member this week: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor,son of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry.
The couple stepped out together for the first time on Wednesday, baby Archie swaddled in a blanket and hat in Harry’s arms.
Harry wore a light gray suit and a slim navy tie. Meghan wore a chic white sleeveless trench dress, nude heels, and a totally normal postpartum body.
Women who have babies, even thin women like Meghan, don’t return to pre-pregnancy form immediately after birth.
A belly that has been stretched to carry a baby doesn’t immediately snap back to a six-pack.
But that’s what thousands of post-pregnancy celebrity photos have conditioned us to expect.
Of course celebrities, who are paid in part for their superhuman good looks, go to great lengths to keep up the illusion that they have superhuman bodies.
But so many images of postpartum women who look just like they did pre-pregnancy send the message that there’s something unattractive or shameful about a body that still exhibits a protruding belly, soft arms, and swollen fingers.
It sends a message that there’s something unattractive or even lazy about a woman who has just done an extraordinary, physically demanding and too often deadly thing.
For more of their fascinating story visit: Vanityfair.com
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II.
UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
And they never give up.
Discover UNICEF’s work for every child, everywhere. Visit: https://www.unicef.org/
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, founded in 1962, is a pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children’s catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers.
The hospital costs about $2.8 million a day to run, and there is no cost to the patient to be treated.
Visit the following link for more information: https://www.stjude.org/
We have so many people who are famous for their philanthropic endeavors, however the wonderful experience of watching an awesome movie is definitely an art worth carrying forward!
The Share a Dream Foundation was founded by Shay Kinsella in 1989 after meeting a beautiful 7-year-old girl who was fighting a terrible uphill battle with Leukemia.
Seeing what this little girl (and her family) was going through in her fight to hang onto life and find some quality of life was heart wrenching for Shay.
He wondered if she had ever done anything special in her short but traumatic young life and when he was told her greatest dream was to go to Disneyland, Shay set about making her dream come true.
Sadly, however this little girl passed away before Shay was able to help realize her dream and this left him devastated.
At that moment he promised that he would do everything he could to bring a little magic into the lives of sick and disabled children all over Ireland and so was born the “Share a Dream Foundation”.
Now in its 27th year, the Share a Dream Foundation has worked with thousands of children North and South to help their dreams come true and give them a break away from hospitals, painful treatments, loneliness and fear.
Each year Share A Dream Foundation helps hundreds of families throughout Ireland to escape from their everyday lives and just have fun.
We hold Concerts, Trips to Disneyland, the National Children of Courage Awards and Dream Ball, Family Holidays and help make many individual dreams come true for terminally ill children.
This year Mother’s Day falls on the 12th May 2019. Remember to show your mom gratitude, love and affection as well as celebrate yourself if your a mother!
Twinkle Twinkle little Star
Losing the Status of Pregnancy
Childbirth is a beautiful experience or it should be, however many women not only discover and experience the yellow (child) within, but many of them also experience the “Blues” or “Baby Blues”.
During the first days after childbirth, many women miss the “simplicity” of their pregnant days. Before the baby arrived, they had few responsibilities and benefited from enormous amounts attention.
While pregnant, they might have been pampered, taken care of, watched over meticulously by doctors and treated as the most valuable commodity carrying the baby.
During delivery, the expectant mother may still be the center of the universe, but as soon as that baby is delivered, all attention has shifted to the baby.
And it is not easy to give up one’s role as the star!
Baby Bottles
Friends and relatives run straight to the cradle without asking how the mother is doing.
Many women have waited months, sometimes years to have a baby, only to now find their womb empty and themselves ignored.
For many women, especially the “21st Century Super Woman” the hardest part is being referred to just a single role, that of mother.
According to Sylvia Brown, author of The Post-Pregnancy Handbook, this psychological fragility is often accentuated by the disappointment that most women feel in regard to their own bodies.
She writes that many of them would like to recover quickly and get their bodies back in shape and also regain their lost equilibrium.
Body Confidence
I’m too sexy for my body (Lol)!
However, it must be realized that realistically, it takes months to do that. It takes nine months to create a baby and perhaps may take the same amount of time if not more to recuperate.
New mothers must accept that their bodies will never be the same, that their body will now have a new appearance, and fulfill new functions.
Fatigue
Fatigue brings on depression.
Most mothers are exhausted after delivering a baby.
If their labor was long, they probably missed a night’s sleep.
Added to the physical fatigue a mother may endure is the nervous tension of actually giving birth, the physical suffering, and for some “the excruciating” pain and constant worry.
After the actual experience of childbirth, some mothers may have to deal with the pain of an episiotomy (find meaning), hemorrhoids, or the scar of a cesarean section which also inhibits sleep.
Uncertainty and Regrets (Maternal Instincts)
The arrival of a baby can unleash a crisis of self-confidence.
Even if the new mother thinks she has “prepared” for the birth, by reading wonderful and informative books like The Post Pregnancy Handbook by Sylvia Brown, the new mother may be surprised by the baby’s apparent vulnerability.
The mother is now thrown off track by the number of new things she has to know, and by how little direction her baby gives her.
She may also not be very confident in her maternal instincts and questions her fragile feelings, that are so new to her:
“It’s not normal. Yesterday he opened his eyes and drank, but he has been sleeping nonstop since yesterday evening. That can’t be normal”.
The new mother doubts her ability to satisfy her baby.
All of this constitutes a shock for the woman who until now felt that she was in charge of her own life.
The feeling of powerlessness can be multiplied if the childbirth was a difficult one.
Some women feel the have “failed” in childbirth if they have had to use anesthesia when they had expected to be able to master their own pain, undergo an emergency cesarean section or had forceps used during delivery.
Some women miss their full, fertile belly, which is now empty, or they are disappointed if the father is not behaving as they had hoped he would.
They have now also lost their status as a little girl, and now must become a responsible mother, forsaking the previous attention bestowed upon them, and turning their attention to another.
Baby Blues (Different types of Postnatal Reactions)
The “Blues” is another word used for Postpartum Depression and is very frequent and completely normal after childbirth.
This mild sadness usually disappears quickly as the hormonal and psychological systems get back on track and the mother gets wrapped up in her child.
Unfortunately, researchers say some women develop a much more severe depression that begins in the weeks following delivery and can impair their ability to mother the child and fall in love with it.
Being detached then makes the mother feel even more depressed and inadequate about not being a good mother.
What was meant to be a joyful time has now turned into a nightmare.
It is important to be alert to the possibility of severe depression after delivery-especially in women who have had one in previous pregnancies.
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The baby blues: short-term state of depression principally of hormonal origin.
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Postnatal depression: not strictly limited to the postnatal period. This is a psychiatric illness that requires both prescription medication and /or psychotherapy.
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Puerperal psychosis: This is an extreme form of postnatal depression that requires immediate hospitalization, with symptoms including hallucinations, extreme confusion, and rejection of the baby.
Socioeconomic Causes
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Financial and professional insecurity is one of the biggest sources of real worries for many new mothers, especially if the new mother has any doubts about whether she will be able to return to her job or if she fears the reactions of her boss or colleagues.
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Many single mothers are faced with the uncertainty of support from the child’s father, or may not be able to identify or locate the child’s father in order to receive that support.
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Some mothers, even though they may be married, may have a husband who is unemployed, or the couples combined financial situation is not strong enough to support the baby’s arrival.
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Some mothers face public humiliation from the public rejection by the father of their baby, especially if the father is disturbed by the baby’s arrival. The father may be jealous or frustrated by another human being taken his place in the “spotlight”. The new mother, wants to make her husband happy and keep the couple intact (often, subconsciously, in order to ensure her child’s financial and emotional security), but she is disturbed by the father’s indifference or even hostility to the child.
Many women feel they are losing control of their life during the weeks after childbirth.
During pregnancy, they may feel that their body was escaping their control and beyond proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, a pregnant woman cannot control the development of the baby inside her.
An obsession with perfection or expectations set too high will most definitely lead to anger and frustration when events don’t go as planned.
Many women find themselves in competition with other women or their own mothers, to try to prove that she can be a better mother, or deliberately does the opposite to show her disapproval.
A perfectionist, who has read everything and prepared for every detail of the baby’s arrival as if motherhood were a science, may then expect every aspect of her baby’s life to fit into well-defined boxes.
If childbirth or the baby presents even the slightest complication, the mother may feel hurt and betrayed.
Her self-esteem has now taken a real blow and she feels extremely guilty that she cannot seem to satisfy her baby’s needs.
Many new mothers worry excessively the first time they conceive, but over-time and with the experience of perhaps several pregnancies, many mothers learn to relax and go with the flow.
Read your bible, pray every day and you’ll grow, grow, grow!
Further Instructions (Colossians 4:2-6)
2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains
4 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.
5 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
6 Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
