Postpartum Depression can suck the life right out of Mama. It can even suck the life out of the whole family. It’s not something we can ignore, and we shouldn’t. This one is for you husbands. Normally I don’t address you directly...
Category - Postpartum Depression
PPD is more prevalent than we even know. Mamas need support, their husband and family needs support. Here is a list of resources to help those affected. Let’s do this together!
A Plead to the Mama in the Darkness of PPD
Dear Mama with PPD, Postpartum Depression is dark, nasty, mean stuff. Some days it seems suffocating. Other days it makes you feel nothing, just total emptiness. Other days still it physically aches and makes you wonder if, how and when you’ll...
From The Tired, Lonely, Discouraged One Called Mama
It’s been a long day. No, it’s been a long week. There’s been a thousand diaper changes, at my hand. More than 50% requiring a whole outfit change because the poop or spit up was too much to just be wiped away. (I don’t wipe...
Postpartum Depression – What It Is and What It Isn’t
So, after my last post on postpartum depression, I got some feedback from strong, lovely women in my life that literally made me pause. It continues to amaze me how many women fight with this, and often refuse to admit it is an issue, whether it be...
Postpartum Depression and 3 Practical Ways to Handle It
I feel really strange writing this post, as I am in the midst of some of this struggle myself. It’s hard to admit, isn’t it? I can have long stretches of ‘normal’, but then the darkness and frustration hits and I feel like I...
When Breastfeeding Sucks (Literally) and What I Did About It
The day of your first child’s birth. Beautiful. Raw. Precious. Difficult. And more than anything the most lovely, trying, learning experience you could ever begin. Veteran moms will tell you, 2 weeks. Give it two weeks. Breastfeeding...
