Being a new mom can feel over the top exhausting at times. A lot of times in fact, and I know I have four kids.

But being a new mom with a thyroid problem can feel like holding a baby in one hand

while pushing a piano up the hill with the other.

It's just over the top exhausting.

And it's not just a slow functioning thyroid that can make this time in your life feel really crazy.

An overactive thyroid can be keeping you from getting sleep and can riddle you with anxiety.

You shouldn't have to suffer, neither should any new mom you know.

Welcome to Natural MD Radio episode 120,

a critical encore of what new moms need to know about their thyroid.

To learn about a problem that's affecting one in 12 new moms and for which they are

notoriously told by doctors, even midwives, well-meaning friends and family that it's just being a new mom that has you feeling

this way. It's probably not and there are things you can do to feel better about

this time in your life and take back your thyroid health. your MD radio your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and

children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting

now I'm Dr. Aviva Rall. I'd love to tell you about Cynthia.

Cynthia was one of the first moms I ever treated for postpartum hypothyroidism.

And it was such a striking situation because it caused her so much suffering.

I met Cynthia when she was early pregnant with her second baby.

And it had been six years since she had her first child and the reason

it took her six years to decide to get pregnant again was that she had such a

horrible really devastating postpartum experience after her first baby was born.

First off, she had very significant postpartum depression.

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