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Being a mom brings great joy to life. It also adds a few layers of ‘to-dos” to your life!
While you are busy running around, making sure everyone is feed right, preventing or dealing with sniffles and sneezing noses, ensuring appointments are scheduled and kept, chauffeuring everyone to baseball practice, piano and swimming lessons, getting groceries before they run out, being a motivator, teacher, mentor, friend, daughter, sister and friend you will find little or no time allocated to you.
Yes, fitting in a girls night out , or simply finding the time to stop and read a few pages on that book you have been wanting to read for the last 4 years seems like the most difficult task of them all, and, let’s be honest, the first one you are willing to give up.
Truth be told, it is the same with our health. While we are well aware that when mom is sick, chaos may follow, we rarely take time out for our wellness doctor appointments. At best, we grudgingly go to the doctor when we are sick, and sometimes we skip that all together.
We write this today to encourage you to schedule (and keep) a well visit to the doctor. Moreover, be an expert at it!
We are sure you are a genius at your child’s wellness visit. Most likely you have a list of topics you want to go over with your pediatrician to discuss health, behavioral issues, development and concerns.
Well, apply your knowledge for you. Become a team with your physician.
Remember to be open, and have a candid discussion with your doctor. If you are like us, this is the time to act your age (and stop hiding it J ) and share with your doctor:
· Where are you versus where you should be at health wise commensurate to your age.
· What (developmental) changes you should be anticipating at your life stage
· Anything you should be on the look-out for?
· If you have health issues, is there any progress? What do you need to adjust?
· What should you be working on to keep healthy?
As we discovered while browsing Molina Heathcare website, most diseases that affect women usually don’t have any noticealbe symptons. This makes it hard to fight these diseases and the outcome is usually not as good when treatment begins in the later stages of disease. This translates into the fact that your wellness visit is essential to keeping you healthy and alert to what your body and mind need.
This year, don’t skip out on you. Take care of yourself so you can continue being your busy super mom self!
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You are 100% correct. We tend to focus on care but not the caregiver. Great tips and questions to ask our doctors,and i will be sure to do just that! BB2U
Buenisimos tips Taty I am a soccer grandma! =)
great tips, we most be in good health to keep our family going
Somos el motor de nuestra familia, debemos cuidarnos! Gracais por los tips
great tips!! :)I will have to take good care of myself now that I am going to be a mommy 🙂
I need to add this to my to-do list (you know that list I have to write every day to ensure everything gets done on time!) I really need to do a well visit. It’s been awhile and I need to keep my health in check if I am going to keep up with this family! 🙂
God, I haven’t been to a doctor in YEARS. And when something IS wrong like I have an ear infection, I usually just go to the CVS Minute Clinic, get a prescription and then I’m done with it.
If you’re only going to be honest with one person in your life, it should be your doctor. So important to visit for an annual check up; many diseases have silent symptoms.
Thanks for sharing!
This is all so true, and I do find myself putting this sort of thing off. As you mentioned, finding time is not easy, but visiting a doctor can be so stressful. Co-pays are outrageous these days, and a lot of doctors aren’t that great. I always feel like I’m being rushed and not getting the attention I should. I really need to make it a point to address these things.
Juggling everything as a mom is a huge challenge, but I definitely try to be as healthy as possible and stay current on check ups because I don’t want to let my health slide. So true that being healthy is critical for being able to take care of everyone else when the children are young and depend on you so much!
I agree we take care of our children’s health and others health but maybe neglect our own. These are great questions to have written down when seeing the doctor because usually when I get there I forget everything and that’s no good.
Visiting the Dr. is the one thing that is really hard for me. I grew up in a different age. And with a lot of doctors. If you weren’t sick, you didn’t visit the doctor. And i grew up with that attitude. So it is really hard for me to get over it and go to the doctor for preventative things. It is something I am working on.
great information thank you for sharing it.
This is a great post. It is so easy to forget about caring for ourselves when we have littles to care for- but so important to make sure that we do!
Very true post! Its easy to put ourselves on the backburner as we put others in front as moms!
I am the only one in our house that does not get sick days, everything seems to fall apart when I do. I do get to go run daily and am grateful for that. I do however keep up with wellness visits, I just have to take the kids with me.
Great post and one that every mother needs to hear once a year or even more. Preventive care is the best kind of health care.
Prevention really can go a long way. It’s so hard as parents to carve that time out, but you’re right, it absolutely should not be, for our own health, but also because our families do depend on us so much.
OH my gosh, you’re so right. I’ve been putting it off for way too long. I know I need to schedule a well visit.
I am totally guilty of putting off doctor visits longer than I should. These are great tips, because I want to stay healthy for family and for ME as long as possible!
Great tips – I sometimes feel like I live at the doctors though I have to admit. x
Great Tips! Health should be a number one priority in every home.
I agree, you have to have good and open communication with your doctor. If you can’t then you don’t have the right doctor.
Such a great article! I am so far behind on my well visits. My doctor decided to leave the practice without notice and now I am left looking for a new one. But as soon as I find the right one, I am making that appointment! I owe it to myself and my family to be as healthy as I can be!
Great tips.. It is so important to stay in contact with your doctor.
Wow! I had this conversation with my new mommy friend earlier today. We are so focused on the family. We tend to forget about ourselves. Great post!
Thanks for the tips – I’ll make use of these things for future purposes. 🙂
Great tips. I could use a smooth running household
Excellent advice here. I’m good about taking time to relax, but not so much about making sure I get to the doctor.
I’m not a mom but I’m pretty good at keeping up with dr appointments. But when I do forget my husband is there to remind me haha
I am trying to take better care of myself this year. Some health issues are forcing me to do it, can’t ignore it any longer!
YOu are so spot on. As a mom we tend to not take care of ourselves and that can’t be happening.
This is so true. It is so important to care for ourselves too, after all, if we are not well we can’t take care of the rest of the family.
YES!! We have to take care of ourselves in order to take care of our kids. And you are totally right that we need to be honest with our doctor!
Tiffany
I am putting myself first for the first time in a long time. I kind of lost myself, but its time to find myself again. I can’t wait for the sun to shine every day so I can get out there and sweat a little. Going to the dr on a regular basis is a big part of my new Me too!
Gracias, me recordaste que tengo que hacer la cita para el chequeo general, mamografía y ginécolo ya mismo.
Abrazos,
Vero
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This is a great post! It’s amazing how many people put everything else before their health.
It is so important to take care of yourself. Because you are so right, when mom is sick, chaos just comes out of the woodwork. Such a great list of questions to ask your doctor! Thanks for the reminder!
SO much truth here! I always preach and say we need to take care of ourselves before we can fully take the best care for our families and health should be a priority! Great article!
I am really finding this out! I have recently lost 15 pounds (and still have a long way to go) but I feel I’m a better mom for being a healthier mom.