Welcome Ultimate Blog Party People from 5 Minutes for Mom! Wanna know what goes on around here? We are very proud to be the most widely-read blog on postpartum depression.
Did you have PPD? If so, you've found your peeps. If not, we hope you'll still care, because it is very likely to happen to a friend, a sister, a daughter or someone else important to you, and if you are armed with information you can be the one who helps save her life.
My name is Katherine, and I had postpartum OCD with the birth of my first child 9 years ago. I'll never forget how awful it was. Never. I've never been so miserable and scared in all my life, and I hope never to be again. That's why I started this blog 7 years ago and am so happy to be here with all the great readers and contributors.
Postpartum Progress offers a list of postpartum depression and anxiety symptoms in plain mama English, to a list of postpartum depression support groups, to great stories of survival from all kinds of moms from all over this planet.
We cover everything from depression during pregnancy to depression after miscarriage to emotional issues after a traumatic childbirth to postpartum OCD and everything in between. We've got a Facebook Fan Page where you can write on the wall and talk to other Warrior Moms (that's what we call ourselves). You can follow us on Twitter at @postpartumprogr. You can share your own story with us. You can email us any time and ask questions at postpartumprogress@gmail.com. We're here to help.
We can't think of anything more important than the emotional health of a new mom, because a healthy mom is able to care for her beautiful new baby in the best ways possible. If you are a momblogger or a parenting or pregnancy blogger, we hope you'll bookmark this site and use it in the future. Thanks so much for stopping by! Please say hello!
hey chickie – Happy Blog Hopping to you!
hey chickie – Happy Blog Hopping to you!
Us carrot tops have to stay together! Love your blog! 😉
heyo! Just stopping in from UBP!! 😀 I've been digging around in your site and I find it very interesting. I'm off to do some more 😀
I've been perusing your different articles. Very helpful site especially as a Mum to a newborn struggling with this issue.
Hello, I found your website through UBP2011. Very useful site. I'll be back soon for more info on these matters.
Nice to meet you!
This is fantastic. I had my son 8 years ago and I think I teetered on the edge of PPD. I'm going to come back and read more after dropping my daughter off at her playgroup! Looking forward to it.
So many people struggle with this. What a wonderful place you to help moms remember they are not alone.
Stopping from the Utimate Blog Party!
Stopping by from the UBP. What a wonderful resource you have set up here. I know a lot of women have been helped by your courage to share this part of your life!
Man, I was ready to declare victory over the ppd. Was gonna talk to the dr about decreasing my meds and then the last couple days hit. I am back to wondering if I should check myself into the hospital again, needing to stay frantically busy. Desperately drowning. This PPD and anxiety is too much sometimes.
i suffered with ppd after my first pregnancy and through my second (they were very close together.)
i'm your newest follower from the UBP!
stacey @ maple bacon & beavertails
You are providing such important support to moms! Keep up the good work.
Stopping by for the party! Nice to meet you. Stop by if you get a chance http://TheMomMaven.com and
Amazing thing you are doing here! stopping in for the party & keep up the incredible work you are doing!
xxo
Hello, glad to have visited. I suffered PPD 8 years ago when my daughter was born. It was one of the darkest moments of my life and hope it won't happen again.
I'm visiting from Dubai via UBP!
What a fabulous mission you have here! Found you through UBP, and I've enjoyed perusing your site.
Thanks for putting this info out there for all to see….PPD is such an important topic, and more common than I think a lot of us realize.
I had post partum 9 years ago with my second child. It was a very dark time in my life. Glad to have found you.
I had post partum 9 years ago with my second child. It was a very dark time in my life. Glad to have found you.
Happy UBP!
I am so happy I found this blog! I was diagnosed with PPD after I had my son one year ago. I was put on meds and my doc didn't want to take me off during the winter. Now that Spring is here and I'm about to taper off (I'm really scared), I'm glad I found support!
Hi! New to your blog and loving it. My daughter is almost 10 months old, and I dealt with some MAJOR postpartum anger and insomnia. I've written quite a bit about it as well and am anxious to read more of your stuff. Really happy to have found your blog! 🙂
http://stayathomemom-newmom.blogspot.com/2011/04/…
Thanks for being so real. I'm passing this on to a friend who is expecting her second – and postpartum was pretty rough the first time around.
-Kanesha
I did not have postpartum, but know of others who have experienced it. Great to find your resource. Thanks!
What an awesome thing you are doing with this blog. I dealt with severe postpartum depression and it was a very scary time for me, and I would have loved to find a resource like this back then. Bless you!
I am so happy to have found your blog Katherine. I just launched my own site in Feb 11 inspired by my own bout of PPD last year, my chronic anxiety and depression, as well as the suicide of a dear friend this past Christmas. It's become my mission to share stories of mine and other moms to help eachother feel not so alone. I wish I had known about your site last year. Anyway, it's very newbut I'd love for you to check it out.
My 3rd Baby: EllieAdorn http://www.ellieadorn.com
I'm very proud of where it's going and hope to find ways to reach more moms and keep building. Thank you for the further inspiration!
Cristi
Found you via the UBP!
Lots of good info here — I can't wait to browse.
What an invaluable resource you have created for moms out there! This is great. I had never heard of postpartum OCD before, but now that I have, it makes a lot of sense. I never had postpartum depression, but I did suffer from depression following a miscarriage (my first pregnancy) many years ago. That kiddo would have been 16 this year. Amazing how the time flies. Anyhow, I hope you might drop by my blog sometime too.
Hi there visiting from the party! Hope you could visit me back! Thanks 🙂
Great resource, think I'll put this one on my "just in case" list…because you never know!
Hi, dropped by via UBP11 and this will be a very useful site for me-can't wait to dig into it deeper-thanks!
I did not have postpartum, but know of others who have experienced it. Great to find your resource. Thanks!
Hi there…
Wow, what a wonderful blog you have! I am the mom to nine children, and I have had two miscarriages…and I have been so lucky to have never experienced PPD. Very lucky! But I do know many friends who experienced it, and yes, you are so right. It's an awful feeling and very scary. I can't even imagine…
This is a great thing you are doing, your blog…what a great way to inform and to reach out and support those who have PPD, or to warn moms-to-be about them, or to help others support the moms they know who have it.
I saw your link on the UBP11 and I'm so glad I clicked on it!
Katrina
http://www.theyallcallmemom.com/2011/04/2011-ulti…
Hi, thanks for stopping by! What a great theme you have to share with people on your blog.