postpartum anxiety

Is it postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety? How to tell the difference between them

In recent years, postpartum mood disorders have (rightly) gotten a lot more…

Frances on getting help after experiencing anxiety, depression and dark thoughts

I couldn't keep up with the speed of my thoughts, but when they started to take a dark turn, I knew I needed to seek help.

Erica on being afraid to be left alone to take care of her baby

"I stopped eating. I cried. I had a constant pit of anxiety that sat in my stomach. The only time it would go away was when I was asleep."

More new moms are thinking of suicide, and society is to blame

Suicidal thoughts and self-harm during and after pregnancy are becoming more common.

Karina on postpartum depression and struggling to find joy in motherhood

"I love my baby…I think... I don’t have all this motherhood stuff figured out yet..."

Nicole on having PTSD, postpartum depression and anxiety after giving birth

"I went to my room and looked at my empty bed, and the empty bassinet and realized this was the first time I had been alone since my delivery. This isn’t how it was supposed to be, and so the first breakdown happened."

Tamara on how Coronavirus actually helped her postpartum anxiety

"Coronavirus did something for me that it probably didn’t do for a lot of other mothers. It helped."

Courtney on Covid, colic, and the postpartum depression and anxiety they caused

"I desperately needed that break, but I couldn't call anyone. My husband and I had to tough it out alone."

Morgan on postpartum depression, anxiety and mom rage as a first time parent during Covid-19

"Every night when the baby would wake up and cry, I would cry too—and every time I felt like I was losing control."

10 products that helped me with postpartum insomnia

I didn't even know it was a thing until I was wide awake at night while everyone else peacefully slept.

Caitlin on how therapy gave her the tools to cope with postpartum rage and anxiety

"I wasn't a bad mother, just one that needed help."

Yasmin on spending months fighting to find help for postpartum depression

"'I’m sorry, it sounds like you may just have the baby blues,' were the words that came out of the nurse’s mouth at my OB’s office when I called every day for a week begging for help at one-week postpartum."

I knew I had PPA, but I didn’t want to admit it

Any situation even slightly beyond my control was completely defeating.

Kelsi on being bipolar and having postpartum depression during COVID-19

"I have always been a hypochondriac with an obsessive fear of dying. I used to get blood work quarterly just to make sure I was OK. If you know anything about depression, you know obsessing over death is a major symptom. Covid knocked the wind out of me."

Becky on loss followed by postpartum depression during a pandemic

"I found myself relieved by the stay-at-home orders because it was just easier to be alone."

I had to cancel all my postpartum support plans

"I sat in my hospital bed canceling plans—plans for my brother to watch my toddler, plans for cat-sitting, meal delivery, and more of my well thought out and planned support systems."

The postpartum anxiety struggle is real

My postpartum anxiety follows me everywhere.

The one question I ask myself when I feel my anger rising

I commonly ask myself this when the control freak inside me began to get agitated.

How to combat postpartum depression and anxiety during COVID-19

7 expert ways to start to feel better

Taylor on how she finally admitted to her husband she needed help

"I packed a bag at one point so I could run away in the middle of the night. I told myself that they would be OK. He could find a wife that wasn’t such a burden and didn’t cry all the time. My daughter could have a mom that didn’t get angry at every little thing."