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I Am A Warrior Mom™
Here at Postpartum Progress, we choose our words with intention. Warrior Mom™ is no exception. Every mom’s journey through PPD is different and we all see our experiences in a way that helps and heals us. In my six years advocating for mothers with...
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Cultural Beliefs that May Affect Asian American Moms’ Emotions After Birth
The title of “Mother” is a universal label suggesting that women who identify as mothers share the same personalities, characteristics, and preferences. Yet when we think about mothers, it is important to remember that each mother is an individual. How...
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Wed, May 06 2015 6:44 AM
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Rethinking Antidepressants and Birth Defects
Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health, posted a very important blog post yesterday regarding a large new study published in the British Medical Journal regarding SSRI’s (the type of antidepressant...
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Launching Our Newest Tool for Moms: The New Mom Checklist for Maternal Mental Health Help
Just in time for Mother’s Day 2015, Postpartum Progress is thrilled to launch its newest tool for moms: The New Mom Checklist for Maternal Mental Health Help. The checklist was created to facilitate helpful conversation between struggling mothers and...
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Fri, May 08 2015 9:22 AM
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Kicking Off the 7th Annual Mother’s Day Rally for Mental Health
It’s that time again! When we here at Postpartum Progress share with you the words of Warrior mamas who have been through it – and now offer hope, camaraderie, and so much more to those who are still fighting, have fought, or will fight. This...
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Sun, May 10 2015 4:00 AM
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The Return – Cristina Spencer
On a bright September afternoon, a little more than a year after my first daughter was born, I drove back to the hospital where I gave birth. Through the stop lights on El Camino Real, right at the In and Out Burger, straight ahead through the double...
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Sun, May 10 2015 5:00 AM
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Jen Gaskell: Rising From the Ashes
It was Mother’s Day, 2011. My daughters were then 7 months old and three and a half years old. I was at a free yoga class twenty minutes from my home. At the class’ end, I lay in relaxation pose. I felt a peace I hadn’t felt in days, my body and...
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Sun, May 10 2015 6:00 AM
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Robin Niedorf: That July Afternoon
My baby and I were often alone together in the early days and weeks. My husband returned to work after a week, my mother returned home after two. Like many new mothers, I lacked confidence in my mothering skills. Is it easier for women who had younger...
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Sun, May 10 2015 7:00 AM
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Kimberly Zapata – Fahrenheit
This post has an intense and abrupt ending. If you are fragile, you may want to skip this particular post as it may trigger you. It was 97 degrees when I went into labor as I waited on an underground subway platform for an uptown F train to the hospital...
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Sun, May 10 2015 8:00 AM
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Lauren Hale – A Different Breed
She sighs, in the penumbra of the small and softly lit lamp, as her baby snuggles closer to her neck, his chubby fists opening and closing. He exhales and relaxes his body with a small rattled whimper. She waits, her eyelids drooping more with every passing...
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Sun, May 10 2015 10:00 AM
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Batman to the Rescue – Joanell Serra
Three days before Christmas, alone in my kitchen, I slammed my dishwasher door so hard I heard the brittle crack of something breaking inside. I thought of opening the dishwasher back up and slamming it shut again and again pouring my frustration out...
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Sun, May 10 2015 9:00 AM
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Robin Neidorf: That July Afternoon
My baby and I were often alone together in the early days and weeks. My husband returned to work after a week, my mother returned home after two. Like many new mothers, I lacked confidence in my mothering skills. Is it easier for women who had younger...
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Sun, May 10 2015 7:00 AM
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Esther Dale – Happy Mother’s Day to ALL Moms
For all the mothers out there, of any variety, Happy Mother’s Day. If you are a mother, you are fierce and you are awesome. Whether you are a birth mom, adoptive mom, stay-at-home-mom, work-at-home-mom, employed outside the home mom, mom who goes...
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Sun, May 10 2015 11:00 AM
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Susan Petcher – Before Kids
Before I had kids? I didn’t know I was suffering from debilitating anxiety. You see, I thought everyone lived like I did, felt like I did, thought like I did. I mean, doesn’t everybody cry in their car in the parking lot of the mall because they...
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Sun, May 10 2015 12:00 PM
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Sarah Bregel – Growing Roots Through Metal & Mud
At 24, home meant a rundown farm house, a bit off the grid in the Maryland countryside. My partner and I had been together only a few months and hastily moved there when I discovered I was pregnant. The house belonged to my grandfather, a wealthy lawyer...
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Sun, May 10 2015 1:00 PM
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