PPD and the Abrupt End of Breastfeeding

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This is the story of the night I stopped breastfeeding my oldest son and what PPD had to do with it. I haven’t really shared this whole story before. Not in its entirety, anyway. And not because it’s a hard story or particularly shameful, but rather...
What Postpartum Rage Looks Like

What Postpartum Rage Looks Like

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Anger. Rage. Bitchy pants. Call it whatever you want, a lot of women who have postpartum depression experience anger as one of their symptoms. It’s a symptom that’s not talked about often enough and, for me, that made it really hard to get a proper diagnosis when I...
Why New Moms Need Peer Support

Why New Moms Need Peer Support

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At a recent mom’s night out, a friend of mine said, “Nobody really tells you the truth about motherhood,” which sparked a discussion about how blindly each woman goes into life as a new mom. Some of us said we were warned about how hard it would be,...