Postpartum Progress

Finding Help: Pediatricians Can Defend Against Postpartum Depression

by Lindsay Maloan (photo via Boss Fight) Most moms wouldn’t ask their pediatricians to check them out if they thought something was wrong. After all, they specialize in children, not women. But in the early months of motherhood, moms spend more time at...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2015 6:09 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, PPD, postpartum depression treatment, postpartum depression., postpartum depression pediatricians

Paralyzed By Fear: I Think I Had Postpartum OCD

Before I knew I had PPD and anxiety, I thought the obsession I had with making sure my son was still breathing was normal. I found out eventually that it wasn’t, but not until after I had spent months totally paralyzed by the thought of losing him to...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2015 2:00 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum anxiety, Postpartum OCD

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...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 11:00 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Mother's Day Rally for Mental Health

Sprinkles of Self-Care

I push self-care a lot in the #PPDChat world. Why? Because it was one of the biggest things that helped me and also because as mothers, we often forget to mother the most important person in our lives -ourselves. This week’s #PPDChat focused on...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 7:30 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Uncategorized, moms, self care

Parenting After Childhood Trauma

Did you experience childhood trauma? It’s worth thinking about if you are pregnant or postpartum and struggling with symptoms of depression, anxiety or PTSD. Or even, actually, if you’re just a mom out there reading this and...

Published Tue, Sep 20 2016 10:45 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, childhood trauma in adults, mothers with childhood trauma, parenting childhood trauma, mothering after childhood trauma, childhood trauma

Postpartum Depression In Other Languages: Spanish & Chinese

One of our goals at Postpartum Progress this year has been to start translating our resources for postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression in other languages. We’ve chosen to focus at the beginning on our New Mom Mental Health Checklist...

Published Thu, Sep 22 2016 6:09 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum depression simplified chinese, postpartum depression in other languages, postpartum depression Chinese, postpartum depression spanish, postpartum depression translation

#DayofLight: Spreading Truth and Hope

Today marks the third annual #DayofLight, a beautiful movement created by Brandi Jeter in 2014. From her post yesterday: “This is what depression looks like in my life. This is just one way that depression looks. The more we share our stories, the...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2016 11:46 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, depression, #dayoflight

Miracle Pregnancies, Close Aged Children, and Postpartum Depression

[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest post from Lhessa Lyons. Despite being told she couldn’t have children, she experienced three quick miracle pregnancies and subsequent postpartum depression. We hope her story will help other moms with...

Published Mon, Feb 15 2016 8:59 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, infertility, guest post, close pregnancies, miracle pregnancy, close spacing

Your Story Isn’t Over Yet

I love semi-colons. True, not everyone uses them right. Sometimes I don’t even use them properly. I just like them; they’re the prettiest punctuation. It’s really powerful punctuation, too. As an editor, I appreciate powerful punctuation...

Published Fri, Apr 15 2016 9:25 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum suicide, PPD suicide, postpartum depression suicide, project semi-colon

Exercise and Recovery in Postpartum Depression

I remember my postpartum depression and anxiety. I was so overwhelmed fighting for survival day by day, that energy for anything other than that was non existent. On the rare days that I did have energy, my anxiety made me too scattered to focus. My depression...

Published Thu, Jul 02 2015 1:38 PM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum depression treatment

Underserved Women & PPD: 5 Things You Should Know

In July, I had the privilege of speaking to over 100 survivors of PPD and other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders at the first Warrior Mom™ Conference about expanding outreach to underserved communities. When those of us who are survivors expand our...

Published Tue, Aug 18 2015 6:27 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, Warrior Moms of Color, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, african american women with postpartum depression, underserved women, mental health disparities, low-income women, mothers of color, latina postpartum depression

Joyce Munro – Mad At You

He’s being smothered. A horror swims up through my chest and I jolt awake. I’ve rolled onto the baby, and—I feel around, just us?—but the nightmare fist does not open. “Wake up,” I say, as I push my hands into my husband. “I can’t breathe.” “Wh-a. . Read...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 2:00 PM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Mother's Day Rally for Mental Health

Susan Petcher – BIG Announcement Post

Postpartum Progress is thrilled to announce our new Mental Health First Aid – Warrior Mom Scholarship! Our Warrior Mom volunteers are at the heart of everything we do. We hear, time and time again, that after sharing stories about your personal...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2015 7:00 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

PPD in the News: What to Do When Tragedy Strikes

If you ever have the radio on, a television on in your vicinity, or follow social media at any point during any given day, you will hear stories of tragedy. Sadly, sometimes those stories involve moms with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. We know...

Published Wed, Oct 28 2015 10:59 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum suicide, In the Media, tragedy, maternal suicide, PPD suicide, postpartum depression suicide

Mantraband Giveaway

We hope you all are loving the giveaways we’ve been able to do the last week. We’ve got more to give-away and we’re especially excited about this next one! Mantraband is a company that makes simply designed bracelets that speak volumes...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2014 6:59 AM by NEW! from PostpartumProgress.com

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, giveaway

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