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Postpartum Depression

“So many emotions were surfacing and making it all so overwhelming.” -Amelie’s Story

  • Posted on 2 July 2020
    • Postpartum Depression
On the 21st of March 2016, I birthed our pink bundle of joy: Poppy Willow. She was the most chill and most alert 3 and a half kilos baby girl with her grey eyes already wide open to the world. All the professionals involved…

“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?…

“We aren’t born knowing all the answers” – Naomie’s Story

  • Posted on 15 August 2019
    • General
    • Postpartum Depression
The shattered illusion of motherhood and becoming my own superhero. Is this my new normality? Will it be like this forever? Will I ever get back to that place I once called home?  Being a mum is incredibly hard work. Fact.  No one really…

“I was in uncharted territory as a new mom trying to make all of the pieces of my old life fit back together” – Jackie’s Story

  • Posted on 21 June 2019
    • Postpartum Depression
    • Self-Care
“You have to get spiritual.” Upon hearing the word “spiritual”, I stared blankly at my new therapist with my hands folded on my bulging belly. I’ve just listed the reasons why I sit on her couch at seven months pregnant and her response didn’t…

“I lived virtually encased in a cocoon of fear, pain and despair” – Amy’s Story

  • Posted on 15 June 2019
    • Postpartum Anxiety
    • Postpartum Depression
For six long months in 2018 I lived virtually encased in a cocoon of fear, pain and despair at the bottom of a deep, dark well. My bright, happy son had just turned 18 months old so at the time I figured I was…

“Where were the laughs and the joy that babies are supposed to bring to their new parents?” – Janine’s Story

  • Posted on 28 June 2019
    • Postpartum Depression
That is a person with Post Natal Depression and Anxiety Bet you didn’t expect that did you? What does ‘depression’ look like? This week is Maternal Mental Health Week and it’s taken a lot for me to pluck up the courage to share my…

“You deserve to be healthy and happy just as much as your baby does.” – Linda’s story

  • Posted on 22 May 2019
    • Postpartum Anxiety
    • Postpartum Depression
My whole life I knew one thing for sure : I wanted to be a mom someday. Lucky for my husband and I, we got pregnant very quickly; but little did I know nothing would prepare me for the things I’d experience once our…

Is it possible to prevent Postpartum Depression?

  • Posted on 27 May 2019
    • Postpartum Depression
    • Self-Care
Dear Mama, Is it possible to prevent Postpartum Depression?    This is something I have been curious about since having my baby and experiencing a range of emotions that, now looking back, could be categorized as Postpartum Depression & Anxiety.  The feelings began when…

“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…

I had to be able to say “I am having a hard time connecting with my baby!” and most importantly… “I need help.” – Tara’s Story

  • Posted on 5 May 2019
    • Postpartum Depression
If I were to describe my life with a generic picture, it would be the theatrical masks. The comedy/drama, the happy/sad masks. I became very good in my life at putting on the mask that I thought I needed for whatever circumstance. You need…

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  • “So many emotions were surfacing and making it all so overwhelming.” -Amelie’s Story
    By Amelie White
  • “What did it mean if I felt that my mental health was robbing me of more children?” – Leah’s Story
    By Leah Reynolds
  • “We aren’t born knowing all the answers” – Naomie’s Story
    By Naomi Ella
  • “I was in uncharted territory as a new mom trying to make all of the pieces of my old life fit back together” – Jackie’s Story
    By Jackie Wilson
  • “I lived virtually encased in a cocoon of fear, pain and despair” – Amy’s Story
    By Amy Solomon

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I’m a writer. I’m usually full of profound words and lots of them. Today I fall short. My website is live. It’s up. Please go click the link in my bio ❤️
It’s me. Popping in to say that this week I will be getting back on board with regular posting because the website is SO CLOSE TO LAUNCHING. And it’s beautiful. It’s going to be everything I ever dreamed of, my friends. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photo Credit : @amandamegphoto
I shared on my personal page that I finally feel like I’m getting my head up from under the water and I am finally starting to feel like myself again after a hard past month. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here’s the best part! We are getting closer and closer to the launch of the Mending Motherhood website and the setbacks that have recently put me in such a low place mentally have really done something great for me in regards to Mending Motherhood. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I have always believed in what this project can do but now I’m expanding just exactly what that could look like for my entire future and I feel more motivated than ever to see this seed grow into something beautiful! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My wheels are turning, brainstorming is happening and conversations are being had. Things are happening over here in MM land and I can’t wait to see them all unfold. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Click on the new link in my profile to then click to join our e-mail mailing list to stay updated on all of this good stuff happening!
If you follow my personal page over at @mended_momma then you know I've had a rough couple of weeks on the home front. Today I'm working really hard on coming up from underneath the water. I have continued to share peeks into the low points of my life after postpartum depression because just as I think it's important that women know that it DOES GET BETTER, I also think that it's important to be realistic that you will still face trials and that with mental illness there may be days that sneak up on you out of nowhere that you have to learn how to combat. So I share glimpses of those hard days and the hard times and with that I try to share how I get through and to the other side of it. This week I was dealt a major blow when I was passed up for a major promotion at my job; something I've been working toward for a long time. There's no point in pretending that it doesn't hurt and that I'm not disappointed...it's important to me to feel it, work through it and get to the other side of it because guys, that's where all of the growth happens. I've seen that time and time again and it's no different this time. I'm not out of the hurt yet but I can see small glimpses of that other side already and one of the biggest things is that the Mending Motherhood website should be up and running within just a few weeks! I can feel it building in my soul that the time is NOW for me to put all of my heart into this project and to open my mind to the endless possibilities in front of me. Photo Credit : @greystorylinephotography
If you follow me on my personal page, @mended_momma or on Facebook then you will know that I’m in Arizona on our first family vacation. First, you cannot honestly call these things vacations with toddlers so let’s be clear about that. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ After a blowout thanks to his antibiotics, I popped him in the tub. I turned around for two minutes to do my hair in the mirror and when I turned back around he was holding a disposable razor up to his face. I couldn’t tell if the guard was off but stayed extremely calm so I didn’t freak him out and make him slice himself but I was already too late. He held the razor away like it had bitten him (it had) and started crying. His lip started dripping blood. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So...the summary of that part is that in the end, it wasn’t that bad of an injury and he didn’t cry long at all but there was a LOT of blood and I cried for a very long time after he finally fell asleep on my chest. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ BUT the reason I share this with you is because I reached out on Facebook and basically said “I’m a horrible mom, please make me feel better about this” and you guys...did the moms ever come through. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 23. That’s how many moms stepped up and told me about their worst mom moment. There were bloody stories, broken bones story, too much medicine stories...and all of them had the same storyline; mom turned her attention away for a moment and then had to deal with the guilt. The same thing that I did. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Wow! I am NOT ALONE. My mistake was a mistake and I will certainly not make it again but it was a mistake. What followed though, these moms sharing their stories, that’s what motherhood is about, right? Having each other’s backs. Lifting each other up. Telling the other that they are NOT a bad mom. No shaming. No guilt. Just LIFTING the other. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You are not a bad mom. You are so good. If you’re up for sharing your worst mom fail, please share in the comments. I guarantee you that another mom needs to hear it today.
I’m on vacation this week in Phoenix but guess what? I’m going to start loading content into the backend of the website on Monday! YAY! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photo Credit : @greystorylinephotography
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