My PPD story begins in 2011 after the birth of my first baby. At 41 weeks pregnant and under the care of a doctor who was not patient or helpful in discussing my options, I was induced. I had...
Becoming a mom is a funny thing. You go to bed one night, belly full of baby, and end the following day with your arms full instead and your heart full of love. At least, that’s what happened to...
Most of my life, I have dealt with depression and anxiety. When I had my first daughter, Adriana, I had the “baby blues.” Two years later, I had a C-section, to deliver my twins, Brynley and Cayden. Both perfectly...
Postpartum depression and anxiety… Wowza! Hands down the hardest most painful journey my family and I have ever gone through. And….I had everything I ever wanted. It was the craziest most debilitating sadness and fear I’ve ever felt....
I’m not new to depression. I went through about five years of it from 2007 on and each year it got worse and worse until I finally got over my fear of the stigma of antidepressants and asked my...
My daughter was born 25 months ago, and only now I have found myself reflecting on what happened, and how it has affected us all. Her birth was a planned c-section because she was in breech...
On April 6th, 2017, everything I had ever wished for came true. I was happily married to my soul mate, we had created a beautiful home, and a family of two boys and finally a daughter. Ava was my third baby,...
When I had Owen, I went through some pretty dark times. I was only 21 when he was born, my friends were all still going out every weekend. I felt extremely alone. I was in a different stage of my life...
I really don’t know where to start. There are so many pieces to this story. Do I begin when I was in the hospital so many times in that 9th month of pregnancy? Do I start with the first...
My four week old lay playing on his blanket, pumping his arms and legs as he watched the mobile I made. It twirled in the gentle breeze blowing in from the open windows while I sat next to him...
I am 1 in 7. There were so many things going on in my life at the time that I honestly believe contributed to my Postpartum Depression. Four days after I found out I was pregnant, my father passed...
Postpartum Depression is silent. I remember when I found out that I was expecting, what I know now was my first of three boys. I was ecstatic. That may even be an understatement. With how much joy I had...
My dream, for as long as I can remember, was to be a mom. With my first baby, I was sick before I had a positive pregnancy test. This would turn out to be my first sign of pregnancy...
I really didn’t know much about post-partum depression. The only thing the nurses did was give me a pamphlet and they didn’t stress how big of a deal it could be. After I had my first born I felt...
I wish I could say it’s been one of those “days”, but it’s felt like this more than one. Finding your new normal in motherhood is hard, and finding your village is even harder. It’s this incredible, life changing...
I still remember looking at my newborn baby in the hospital thinking to myself, “Everyone says that you’re going to instantly fall in love with your baby, yet I don’t feel anything in particular for this little human”. I...
My postpartum depression story starts long before I gave birth to my baby boy. I truly believe it started the day I found out I was pregnant. I remember crying on the phone with my mom just minutes after...
From a young age, many of us dream about having a family. We play dolls; we read stories; we come up with baby names. In all of those dreams, we get pregnant easily, have a smooth pregnancy and birth,...
Everything was perfect a day ago… I could finally fulfill my dream of traveling now that I was on maternity leave, taking more than the average 3-6 months off for my new baby. My life could not have felt...
My story is unveiled with my three pregnancies. With all three of my pregnancies, I was very high risk. I had weekly appointments, many ultrasounds, bedrest and way too many pills to take in order to keep my beautiful...
About 3 months ago I endured one of my biggest fears; Miscarriage. I was not a stranger to it. I knew quite a bit about it. I had been surrounded by it, by so many women in my life....
I love my life, it’s pretty perfect. I have a healthy, beautiful boy and a loving husband, I have even lost all my baby weight. But postpartum depression paints a different story: it says you are nothing more than...
I’ve battled along time with the shame of having postpartum depression because all I have ever wanted was to be a mother. I never longed for the perfect family, but I longed for a baby. When I first found...
A little over three years ago, I endured the toughest trial of my adult life. There’s not a birth or baby class detailed enough to prepare someone for the mental health challenges that I was about to come up...
I was that person who didn’t think postpartum depression existed. I truly thought that after you had a baby you’re going to be over tired, and you would be fine. I thought this until I had my son,...
I woke up on a perfectly sunny Tuesday in March of this year. And I instantly regretted it. My tired and sleep deprived soul whispered, “Why Lord? Why did you not take me in the night like I asked...
On July 22, 2016 I gave birth to my little boy who became the light of my life. However, I would not have been that positive the day I had him, or for the next 5 months for that...
My name is Alyssa and I am thirty years old. I’ll start with a little back story. My parents split up when I was one and my mom married my step dad. When I was three, I became a...
What were some of the first signs you noticed before realizing you were suffering from PPD? In the moment, I didn’t notice anything. I was overwhelmed by a colicky baby and the crippling defeat from not being able to console...
My husband and I have always struggled to get pregnant. I remember the hopelessness, the nights I cried myself to sleep and the self enforced exclusion from my peers starting families of their own. My empty arms ached and...