postpartum depression

Riding The Waves of Life

by beth September 9, 2011

After decid­ing to out myself as suf­fer­ing from post­par­tum depres­sion after the birth of our fourth child I knew going into hav­ing a fifth child peo­ple would won­der about my health.  More specif­i­cally my men­tal health. It only makes sense that peo­ple would ask about how things are going.  Usu­ally when they ask it’s with […]

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New Low

by beth May 24, 2011

(band is Mid­dle Class Rut, song New Low) I’m going to be hon­est. (Deep breaths…) I’m a lit­tle (or more than a lit­tle) wor­ried about what will hap­pen when Baby Girl makes her world debut. I don’t want to go back to how things were after D-man. The real­ity of post­par­tum depres­sion is one that I […]

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In a Big Country

by beth January 10, 2011

My hus­band loves this song, I can remem­ber the first time I heard it with him. At 19 while we were dri­ving in the car, he popped it on and started singing it. I was mem­o­rized. I also have a vivid mem­ory of it play­ing in the sum­mer after hav­ing our 4th child. When everything […]

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I.Am.Here.

by beth October 16, 2010

I’ve been think­ing a lot about the last cou­ple of years.  Espe­cially how hard hit I was by post­par­tum depres­sion after D-man was born, how hard hit we all were.  With him our fam­ily grew & our love grew.  But then PPD came, attempted to con­quer, attempted to steal the joys found in falling in […]

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