Motherhood Understood was started by Jen Schwartz, a mother who struggled with postpartum depression and now provides an online community for other women. Her website can be a useful resource to connect with women and read stories that can help mothers realize they are not alone.
This NY Times article describes one woman's experience of becoming a mother.
I felt stifled by these rigid ideas of what it meant to be a mother. The books’ goal was to turn me into a better, more useful vessel to carry my children’s needs and desires. I refused to be a vessel. I wanted to be a person.
In the Country of Motherhood, Finding My Own Path:
Mothers are often seen as vessels to contain and nourish children. I never once felt like that.
By Olga Mecking
Jan. 18, 2019
This GLAMOUR article describes the struggle that SAHMs can feel.
. . . that panicky, helpless feeling that sets in when you start to believe that you exist only to help others exist. Or feel like you might want to be doing something more but can't talk about it because you're "lucky" to have the option of not working. Or when every small thing in your life feels like a struggle—from brushing your teeth (see: toddler climbing up your leg), to trying to cook a meal for yourself (oh wait, the baby is hungry right now and feeding her is more important), to even getting dressed (why bother?).
Stay-at-Home-Mom Depression Is Real—and Women Are Finally Talking About It
BY CHAUNIE BRUSIE
DECEMBER 19, 2018
By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
“Intrusive thoughts,” as psychologists call them, are common among new parents. What distinguishes them is the way they jump into our heads and feel beyond our control.
Attending a group with other moms dealing with similar issues can be very helpful in the first few months of being home with a baby. Parent Craft Collective in Park Slope is now hosting a few different options of groups. Here is the website that gives more information.
Mindful Motherhood is a great resource to learn how to integrate mindfulness into your new life with a baby. It can help decrease anxiety and create a stronger bond with your baby.
For 38 percent of sufferers, the condition becomes chronic, and mothers who expected it to pass as their children aged can struggle to find effective treatments.
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