Perinatal and Postpartum Anxiety: The Sneaky Siblings of Postpartum Depression
It all started with my first pregnancy in 2017. I went alone to our initial ultrasound appointment, expecting a quick,…
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It all started with my first pregnancy in 2017. I went alone to our initial ultrasound appointment, expecting a quick,…
Continue ReadingIn one second of twisted fate, my pregnancy ended. At 39-weeks pregnant, my baby’s heart stopped silently in my womb.…
Continue ReadingWhen we found out I was expecting our first “ours baby,” we were ecstatic and overjoyed. But there was a…
Continue ReadingHe asks me to watch him swing every day. Sometimes I watch him through the window as I make dinner.…
Continue ReadingThere’s no way this is postpartum depression. How could it be? I remember thinking this to myself as I received…
Continue ReadingIf I had to rate all of God’s gifts to us mere mortals, the ones that reassure us of His…
Continue ReadingI used to grab him every morning at 5 a.m. when he’d cry out for me. I’d trudge my tired…
Continue ReadingEvery day, he’s a little less little boy. I see the transformation in the swagger he’s perfecting, so much more confident…
Continue ReadingWhat you don’t know is the ultrasound picture on the refrigerator isn’t you. I couldn’t bring myself to take hers…
Continue ReadingIt used to be flat. It used to be toned up and all one color. It used to tan really…
Continue ReadingIt seems like yesterday I was watching you dance in my belly, anxiously awaiting your arrival. Now you’re going to…
Continue ReadingTo the one who made me a mother, my first child, thank you. You hold a special place in my heart.…
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