Post-menstrual syndrome is a thing — just askAlanna Ubach.
TheGirlfriends’ Guide to Divorcestar revealed to PEOPLE’sCeleb Parents Get Realthat she had an unexpectedly hard time after discontinuing breastfeeding her sonThomas Rodolfo, who celebrates his first birthday on Wednesday.
“I did almost lose itwhen I stopped breastfeedingmy son, and no one talks about that,” says Ubach, 42. “When you stop breastfeeding, all of a sudden, that premenstrual syndrome … every period that you did nothave while you were pregnantand while you were breastfeeding comes to you all at once.”
“It is unbelievable how hormonal I was during that transition,” she admits. “I drove my family crazy.”
When it comes to getting an epidural during childbirth, Ubach advises pregnant women, “Don’t be a martyr” and to save themselves from the pain.
“If you’re in pain while you’re in labor, please, for God’s sake. Taking an epidural isn’t going to make the child any less capable than if youdecided not to have the drugs,” she says. “You’ll brag about not having used drugs for about four years and after that, the story gets old and no one really cares anymore.”
Advises theLegally Blondestar, “So just cut out the middleman and take the drugs.”
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“Acupuncture really did kick everything in gear for me, I think,” Ubach tells PEOPLE. “I would go to acupuncture once a week [where they’d] place needles all around my belly, all around the uterus, and I think that really did wake things up after about a couple of months.”
“I had gone through fertility treatments andmy husband and I froze embryos— we have five babies on ice right now,” she reveals. “And so all of this planning didn’t amount to anything because after one visit back in Los Angeles, I got pregnant naturally. … I didn’t think I could get pregnant naturally because of my age. But you never know.”
source: people.com
