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Moms With Postpartum Depression Often Quit Breastfeeding

The MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health analyzes a recent study of 42,000 women in Norway and how their anxiety or depression affected their breastfeeding, as well as how quitting breastfeeding affected their depression or anxiety. In the past...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2012 11:50 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, PPD, breastfeeding, breast feeding

Postpartum Anxiety Led Mom To Bury Herself In Her Work

Warrior Mom Tana W. shares how she buried herself even deeper in her work while going through postpartum anxiety just to feel a sense of purpose. After an unplanned c-section due to some medical complications and a four-day hospital stay, I was desperate...

Published Wed, Oct 17 2012 8:01 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum anxiety, work

Fact Checking The Postpartum Depression Doubters: “Pills Are The Easy Way Out”

Gina over at The Feminist Breeder Blog recently realized that she is suffering from postpartum anxiety. She was able to reach out for, and get, help from a psychiatrist. She wrote about the negative reaction she got on the web from some readers after...

Published Sun, Jan 22 2012 3:59 PM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

Warrior Moms of the Week – 9/2/11Edition

Here are the Warrior Moms of the Week, as nominated by the readers of Postpartum Progress … An absolutely beautiful story in pictures from Kimberly at All Work & No Play Makes Mommy Go Something Something about why fighting against… Read...

Published Fri, Sep 02 2011 7:54 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, post partum depression, PPD, baby blues, Warrior Moms, Postpartum Progress

Upcoming Events on Postpartum Depression: Come See Me in NJ and TN!

Over the next two weeks, I will be doing two speeches on postpartum depression and related perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. I wanted to let you know in case you are nearby and would like to attend: The first is Wednesday, October 19th. I’ll...

Published Sat, Oct 15 2011 10:54 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Progress News

How To Get Your Story, Event or News Published on Postpartum Progress

I hope you don’t mind a little housekeeping chat, but this is really important. Especially for those of you who run PPD support organizations, or who are volunteers or professionals with news to share, or are moms who want to share their stories...

Published Tue, Apr 17 2012 1:22 PM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

Warrior Mom Survivor Badges

I’ve heard from several of you about adding Warrior Mom survivor badges to your blog or website. You want to shout to the rooftops that you made it through postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety or a related illness and I can certainly understand...

Published Fri, Mar 09 2012 7:08 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

Jenna Hatfield: On Wanting to Be the Perfect Mom

Dear New Mom, I wanted nothing more than to be a mom. No, no, that’s not true. I wanted nothing more than to be a great mom. No, that’s still not right. I wanted nothing more than to be a perfect mom. I was going to be the be-all-and-end-all...

Published Sun, May 13 2012 10:08 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, Mother's Day Rally for Mental Health, Jenna Hatfield, relinquishment

The Blurred Lines Between Postpartum Depression & Grief After A Loss

Today’s Warrior Mom is Jessica Watson. Jessica Watson is a mom to five, four in her arms and one in her heart, and today she’s sharing her experience with the blurred lines between grief and postpartum depression after perinatal loss. You...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2012 6:48 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, PPD, perinatal loss, Jessica Watson

Depression In Men: A Dad’s Story of Male Postpartum Depression

Men get depressed in the first year postpartum, too. Whether you call it paternal postpartum depression or something else, what we do know is that new fathers’ suffering can impact the health of their children just as the depression of new mothers...

Published Tue, Apr 24 2012 6:41 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Help For Fathers, postpartum depression dads, paternal postpartum depression, father depression, men depression, postpartum depression fathers, male postpartum depression, depression in men

Moms With Postpartum Depression Can’t Leave Babies Alone At Night

I wrote this piece for Babble.com today on new research finding that moms with postpartum depression and/or anxiety are more likely to wake their babies in the middle of the night unnecessarily. Hope you’ll visit me over at Babble today to read...

Published Thu, Apr 19 2012 11:00 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Problems sleeping

News Roundup 5/2/12

I’m probably on a plane right now, headed to Miami to attend the Mom 2.0 Summit. Meantime, here’s a news roundup for you on the topic of … what else? Postpartum depression and other completely not fun mental illnesses related to pregnancy...

Published Thu, May 03 2012 7:20 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

From Suicide to Joy: A Tale of Three Mothers & Three Birthdays

Tomorrow is PPD advocate Yael Saar’s 40th birthday. She wants to talk to you about a very important topic: postpartum depression and suicide. I failed where my mother succeeded. Make that “failed” and “succeeded”. My mother...

Published Fri, Sep 23 2011 7:04 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, suicide prevention, postpartum suicide, suicide, suicidal

California Mother Charged With Murder Had Been Treated for Postpartum Depression

A baby has died and a mother is charged with murder. I hate writing about these things. I’d almost rather pretend they haven’t happened. Sonia Hermosillo, a mother of three who had apparently been treated for postpartum depression, threw her…...

Published Thu, Aug 25 2011 6:42 AM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression, postpartum psychosis, infanticide, Sonia Hermosillo

46 Million Americans Report Having Struggled With Mental Illness

Think you’re alone? That no one else is struggling with their mental health? Think again. New research shows that one out of every five Americans reports they suffered from a mental illness in the previous year. That’s 46 million people, y’all...

Published Sat, Jan 21 2012 2:34 PM by Postpartum Progress

Filed under: Postpartum Depression

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Moms With Postpartum Depression Often Quit Breastfeeding

Postpartum Anxiety Led Mom To Bury Herself In Her Work

Fact Checking The Postpartum Depression Doubters: “Pills Are The Easy Way Out”

Warrior Moms of the Week – 9/2/11Edition

Upcoming Events on Postpartum Depression: Come See Me in NJ and TN!

How To Get Your Story, Event or News Published on Postpartum Progress

Warrior Mom Survivor Badges

Jenna Hatfield: On Wanting to Be the Perfect Mom

The Blurred Lines Between Postpartum Depression & Grief After A Loss

Depression In Men: A Dad’s Story of Male Postpartum Depression

Moms With Postpartum Depression Can’t Leave Babies Alone At Night

News Roundup 5/2/12

From Suicide to Joy: A Tale of Three Mothers & Three Birthdays

California Mother Charged With Murder Had Been Treated for Postpartum Depression

46 Million Americans Report Having Struggled With Mental Illness