Leah Reynolds, Author at Mending Motherhood

“What did it mean if I felt that my mental health was robbing me of more children?” – Leah’s Story

Posted on 29 August 2019
- Postpartum Depression

If you think back to the first times you started daydreaming of growing up and having a family then it’s most likely that if you wanted to have kids when you grew up then you could have said exactly how many you wanted. Me?…

“I wasn’t SAD that I was having a boy; I was sad because I had to say goodbye to the little girl who had grown in my mind” – Leah’s Story

Posted on 25 June 2019
- Gender Disappointment
- Postpartum Depression

For years I had seen in my mind a little girl with red curls. The red was a little darker than strawberry blonde, the curls were loose and wild. She was my daughter. When my now-husband and I started getting serious, I thought she…

“Real, amazing growth happens when you get to the other side of hurt and pain.” – Leah’s Story

Posted on 16 April 2019
- Postpartum Anxiety
- Postpartum Depression

My husband and I started dating almost nine years ago now and he made me his wife on a perfect November Saturday six and a half years later surrounded by all of the most important people in our world and, unbeknownst to all but…

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Normal

Posted on 9 April 2019
- Postpartum Depression

“ I’m crying all of the time and I feel really sad. Is this normal? ” If I’ve seen this question, or a variant of it, asked once since my own battles with postpartum depression then I’ve seen it a thousand times. As new…