Postpartum Anxiety
/The NY Times has a parenting site with many interesting and useful articles like this one on anxiety-
"The Magic of The Motherhood Center"
/The Motherhood Center recently came out with a PSA which follows graduates of their Day Program. This is a wonderful resource for moms needing more support. Watch the video here:
The Magic of The Motherhood Center: The Journey of Seven PMAD Survivors
"What Having A Child Does To Your Relationship"
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If you were to design a crack method to break up happy couples, you’d probably include sleep deprivation, financial insecurity, shredded erogenous zones, a third person in your bedroom and stress. In short: a baby.
This Vogue article, What Having A Child Does To Your Relationship, describes clearly how having a baby adds stress to the relationship but can also get you to a new place of becoming a family.
"Motherhood Sessions"
/A new podcast, Motherhood Sessions, gives a glimpse of what it can be like to talk about the experience of motherhood with a therapist. The sessions start to explore various topics of motherhood with moms who have volunteered to sit down with Dr. Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist.
Drug Approved for Postpartum Depression
/The F.D.A. has approved the first drug specifically for postpartum depression. It definitely has its limitations but this is a move in the right direction. Read the entire NY Times article here.
Motherhood Understood
/Motherhood Understood was started by Jen Schwartz, a mother who struggled with postpartum depression and now provides an online community for other women. Her website can be a useful resource to connect with women and read stories that can help mothers realize they are not alone.
"In the Country of Motherhood, Finding My Own Path"
/This NY Times article describes one woman's experience of becoming a mother.
I felt stifled by these rigid ideas of what it meant to be a mother. The books’ goal was to turn me into a better, more useful vessel to carry my children’s needs and desires. I refused to be a vessel. I wanted to be a person.
In the Country of Motherhood, Finding My Own Path:
Mothers are often seen as vessels to contain and nourish children. I never once felt like that.
By Olga Mecking
Jan. 18, 2019