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@Akhu_ose

Abba's Daughter ❤️ Virtual assistant |Digital marketer |Health educator Passionate about helping busy professionals and entrepreneurs do less but achieve more

Nigeria

Joined August 2020

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856 Followers

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@sunnkssdseraph

6 days ago

The baby is only part of the birth. There's another birth that almost nobody talks about. The PLACENTA. For 9 months, your body grows an entirely new organ, an organ with one job keeping your baby alive. It delivers oxygen, nutrients, hormones, filters waste and connects two completely different circulatory systems without ever mixing your blood. Then, minutes after your baby is born that organ detaches from the wall of your uterus, and when it does, it leaves behind a wound roughly the size of a dinner plate. About 10 cm across, that is why you bleed after birth, because your body is healing a wound. At the same time, your uterus, which stretched enough to hold an entire baby, is working around the clock to shrink back down to its pre pregnancy size. Those after pains you're feeling those contractions, they are your uterus, squeezing itself smaller while compressing hundreds of open blood vessels to stop the bleeding. Now imagine this. If you had a wound that size anywhere else, on your body, on your arm, on your leg, your back, would anyone expect you to be back at work in a week? Would anyone expect you you to entertain visitors? Cook meals, carry a baby day and night smile for photos and get your body back, of course not. You'd probably be in the hospital on a drip. People would tell you to rest up. They'd expect weeks of recovery, yet when that exact wound is hidden inside your body, the world acts as though you should be back to normal almost immediately. 6 weeks later, you go for your postpartum, check up. Many women think it's a milestone that says, wow, you've recovered. It isn't. It's simply checking whether the bleeding has stopped, whether the placental wound has healed and whether your uterus is recovering as expected. It is not a certificate that says your body, brain, hormones, identity or even nervous system have all returned to normal. So if you've ever been wondering, why haven't I bounced back yet? Here's the better question why were you ever expected to bounce back from something this enormous in the first place? Your body is recovering from one of the most extraordinary healing processes a human being can experience. Give yourself some time and space to recover.

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@NoFilterSkin

7 months ago

Of all the places to spray perfume, avoid your pulse points. Especially your neck. While it's believed to make your fragrance last longer, it can actually cause problems. In a few years, you could be dealing with Poikiloderma of Civatte and there’s nothing that fully reverses it. Your neck is extremely delicate, almost like the skin in your armpits or private areas. It’s thin, constantly moving and directly exposed to sun and friction. Unlike your face, it has little protective oils, which makes it vulnerable to anything applied on it and once damage happens, it’s permanent. Pulse points are areas where blood vessels run close to the surface... wrists, behind the ears and the neck. They’re warmer than other areas, which supposedly makes perfume bloom and diffuse faster. That’s why generations of beauty advice have told us the neck is the perfect place to spray. Which is so WRONG! Perfume is made of alcohol, oils, and other chemical compounds that are far from gentle. On the neck, these chemicals penetrate faster than almost anywhere else on your body. Sun exposure also acts as an accomplice. Some ingredients in perfumes, react with UV rays, creating tiny bursts of inflammation. These reactions happen every time you’re outdoors after spraying perfume They slowly trigger pigment changes and weaken blood vessels. This is why even casual exposure, combined with perfume, can leave marks you won’t notice until years later. Over time, the blotches darken and spread. Tiny broken blood vessels can appear, creating a fine network of red lines that give the skin a patchy, uneven look. The tissue itself thins, which makes veins, pigmentation and even minor discoloration more noticeable. All of a sudden, your neck looks older than your face, and nothing you try seems to fix it. The best method is spraying perfume lightly on your clothes. Fabric absorbs fragrance, slows evaporation and shields delicate skin from direct chemical and sun exposure. You get the perfume, your skin stays safe and years from now, your neck looks normal instead of blotchy.

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9 months ago

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9 months ago

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rahmahsugar🫪🫩 @rraahhmmaattt

over 1 year ago

Hi there. I'm Rahmat, an entry level project/product manager and I am in dire need of an internship to gain practical experience in the field. Help repost if this pops on your tl. Thank you😔🫶🏾