Can Walking Help Postpartum Depression?
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
There's encouraging research for new moms who are struggling. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the couple times Ava experienced postpartum depression and shares the encouraging details from this recent study.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10-minute walk is helping you keep the fitness promise you made to yourself, |
| 0:07.0 | and we'll add another link to your growing fitness chain. |
| 0:11.0 | Today is the birthday of one of our sons, Aaron. |
| 0:16.0 | He was born on April 2, 1995. |
| 0:21.9 | Do the math. |
| 0:24.0 | He's 29 years old today. |
| 0:25.6 | There, I just did the math. |
| 0:30.9 | We, Ava and I have six children. |
| 0:42.7 | The first five, their birthdays are between January 26th and May 14th. So we are in birthday season for our kids. |
| 0:55.8 | Our youngest daughter, Emma, was born on November 18th. So she's number six and her birthday is really set apart, which is kind of cool. |
| 1:04.7 | But our first five children, their birthdays are all condensed towards the beginning of the year. |
| 1:11.6 | Recently, I was talking to Ava about postpartum depression. |
| 1:15.6 | She struggled with that twice. And the first time didn't see it coming. |
| 1:18.6 | Had no idea. |
| 1:21.6 | Was not prepared. |
| 1:24.6 | And it really threw her for a loop. |
| 1:33.3 | And then after that, she was aware that it could happen, did not want it to happen, |
| 1:36.8 | was almost fearful that it would happen. |
| 1:42.3 | Gratefully, it didn't happen with every pregnancy, with every birth after every birth, |
| 1:45.9 | but it did happen once more. |
| 1:53.3 | So there were two times after Eva gave birth that she struggled with postpartum depression. |
| 1:58.9 | And it was hard. It lasted for months. |
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