Wondering When It Gets Easier, Mama? Why it's harder than you imagined to mother an older infant +7 tips to help you through

Wondering When It Gets Easier, Mama? Why it's harder than you imagined to mother an older infant +7 tips to help you through

Your baby is 6 months. Perhaps 8 or 10 months old. You thought you'd "have it together" by now. Or at least feel like a version of your former self. You've managed to piece together some semblance of a routine and take care of the basics- you go food shopping, hit the park after the second nap occasionally. But you feel anything but together. 

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Reducing the Stigma of Maternal Mental Health Disorders

Reducing the Stigma of Maternal Mental Health Disorders

Advocates are hopeful that by normalizing the prevalence of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs), more women will understand the differences between the baby blues and postpartum depression. Greater awareness will allow for the realization that “something’s not right”— with me, my wife, my sister, my daughter, and thus more screenings for prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety. PMADs are very treatable with professional help. With help you will feel better.

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