7 Ways Women Can Prioritize Their Health
Women make time for so much in life – organizing children’s after-school activities, helping coworkers with difficult projects and ensuring everyone in your family keeps up with routine medical care, to name a few. To be able to devote time to those things, however, women need good health. Celebrate National Women’s Health Week by resolving…
Why Are Bad Habits So Hard to Kick?
Whether it’s living a sedentary lifestyle, eating unhealthy foods, abusing drugs or alcohol, or not getting enough sleep, almost everyone has at least one habit that’s affecting their health and well-being. Unfortunately, bad habits are hard to kick precisely because they’re habits. Habits become ingrained in our daily lives and, over time, become “automatic” behaviors.…
Ditching Bad Habits
You don’t have to wait until the start of a new year to create resolutions to better yourself. Usually healthy resolutions involve adjusting behavior that’s negatively affecting your health. Take action to take control of your health and leave your bad habits in the past. Check out our infographic below and then read about how,…
Through All Maternity – Pamela’s Journey
Pamela’s JourneyI struggle with panic and anxiety disorder, which was a big challenge through my pregnancy. It was a hard, hard road, and without the support of the Healthy Moms program at St. Francis I don’t know how I would have done it.Ryker, my second son and third child, was born August 22, 2022, at…
Through All Maternity – Kily’s Journey
Kily’s JounreyAs a high-risk pregnancy, I thought I was prepared for everything, but I was thrown a curveball when I had to stay in the hospital much longer than my newborn. It was a very scary time, but thankfully my family had a wonderful support system to see us through. It literally took a village…
Through All Maternity – Sarah’s Journey
Sarah’s Journey Our fourth child, Weston, is a blessing that we didn’t see coming, and his birth was truly a…
Through All Maternity – Rachel’s Journey
Rachel’s JourneyThe Rise Up program at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital gave me and my daughter a second chance and a fresh start. I don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t have that program.I’m 27 now, and my daughter Raedynn was born at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital on December 11,…
Through All Maternity – Arianna’s Journey
Arianna’s JourneyThe best part of my birth journey is that I didn’t have to travel far from home to have an exceptional birth experience right here in Bogalusa. For my third child I wanted to stay close to home and repeat the great experience I had when I delivered my second child at Our Lady of…
Through All Maternity – Elizabeth’s Journey
Elizabeth’s JourneyPregnancy has taught me patience and that I don’t have as much control as I think I do. Having an induction for my third birth made me realize that you can have a plan but you also have to be OK with things not going according to plan.My husband and I welcomed William to…
