This is a really important article from NPR that I shared on our Facebook page a few days ago. It talks about postpartum psychosis, which is when a new mother has a break from reality. This illness is rare, but not as uncommon as you would think, because most women are too afraid to talk [...]
Depression and/or Mental Illness (Unrelated to Pregnancy)
Age: 27 Number of Pregnancies: 3 I had my first child when I was 18. Before her I had a beautiful body, that I was proud of. (Of course most 18 year olds do) After I had her I had NO idea what i was “supposed” to look like or what it was going to [...]
Your Age: 36 Number of pregnancies and births: 3 pregnancies. 1 birth, 2 abortions The age of your children: Son born September of 2008. Abortion in 1997 at eight weeks and in 2009 at four. I have always had depression and anxiety, I have no memory of a time when they weren’t present; according to [...]