Feeling Tired? Heavy Period? It’s Time For A Women’s Wellness Check

Why women’s wellness checks are essential after kids – from tackling low iron and heavy periods to managing hormonal shifts, so you can start feeling like yourself again.

Motherhood is a beautiful, transformative experience, but it can also take a significant toll on our bodies. At first, it’s the sleepless nights with a newborn, and then it evolves into a persistent, bone-deep fatigue. It’s easy to dismiss these feelings as part and parcel of motherhood, but sometimes, there’s something deeper at play.

For many of us, like myself, it became more than just being ‘tired.’ Am I exhausted from motherhood? Burnt out? Or is there something else going on? It wasn’t until I dug deeper into my health that I uncovered a critical imbalance: my iron levels were super low, particularly my ferritin. This discovery has been life-changing.

Written for Mama Disrupt® | Read the full feature here.