May 26, 2026
My baby has been screaming for what feels like hours. She won’t nap unless I hold her. How the hell am I supposed to hold her nonstop and still care for my other children? I’m sweaty from having her pressed up against me for so long. My arms feel sore, heavy. My neck aches from […]
May 21, 2026
“I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t hold her and I couldn’t sing to her and I couldn’t smile at her … All I wanted to do was disappear and die. … If I had been diagnosed with any other disease, I would have run to […]
May 6, 2026
Hello and an early Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I will admit, I kind of used to dread Mother’s Day. When my kids were little, the last thing I wanted to do was take the three of them out of the house! The perfect Mother’s Day really would have been a […]
April 30, 2026
Tomorrow….it’s gonna be May! (::cue Justin Timberlake::) And May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month! Since a lot of you are new here, you may not know that I am both trained and certified in perinatal and maternal mental health. One of my many passions is focusing on mothers and their unique needs in terms […]