Postpartum Depression and Anxiety are so common amongst new mothers. In this post I share my story about my experience with a perinatal mood disorder after my oldest daughter was born. I hope in sharing this story, it gives you courage to know there is help out there and support can make a huge difference!
As I’ve talked about in previous posts, I believe it’s really important to not only create a birth plan to include your ideal birth preferences, but to also create a postpartum plan before you have your baby so you can ensure you have a restorative and healing environment after you give birth. How and why […]
Did you just have your baby? Aren’t you so relieved? The hardest part is over, right? Well, at least that’s what you thought. But…then you arrive home and are totally terrified to realize that somehow the midwife let you be on your own, just you and your husband, with this new baby. WHAT???!! How? Who […]
You may have heard that pregnancy is defined in 3 trimesters. The first trimester is from when you become pregnant through the 13th week, the second trimester is weeks 14-27 and the third trimester is from week 28 to week 40. What you may not know is that there is actually a fourth trimester as […]
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