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When you hear the words “postpartum psychosis”, I think it becomes easy to let the diagnosis become a mothers entire story. We have been hearing a lot about postpartum psychosis in the news lately, and as much as we love to see awareness around it, I also think we are seeing a lot of stigma, misconceptions, and thoughts that the diagnosis defines who a mother is. When the reality is, there is a mother behind the diagnosis. There is a wife behind the diagnosis. And most import

Maternal mental health does not fit into a “one size fits all” type of category. I think that is where we are strongly struggling in the mental health area, especially for mothers. We are constantly struggling with trying to treat every woman the same, when the hard truth is, what works for some doesn’t work for others. And there are some of us that nothing within the medical system seems to work for, and we find that alternative methods work better. It’s all about finding wh

Some women bond with their baby as soon as they see those two little lines pop up on a pregnancy test, and for others, that bond doesn’t...