How to Cope with Postpartum Anxiety on Top of OCD OCD fills your mind with intrusive thoughts, convinces you that devastating things will happen if you don’t react in the right way. As a new parent, this might be difficult to deal with, especially when those thoughts...
Identifying Signs of Perinatal Mood Disorder If you’re pregnant, or your partner is, then you’ve probably looked into the different kinds of problems one might develop during pregnancy. Maybe you’re familiar with postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety. You might...
When Does Postpartum Anxiety Usually Kick In Having a child is a wonderful, special experience. We bring a baby into the world, and we raise them. We nurture them so they can become their own person. Is there anything more wonderful than that? But raising a child...
When Does Postpartum Depression Begin For a lot of us, giving birth is complicated. Birth might not go as planned, or we find ourselves experiencing new, distressing feelings after giving birth. Maybe we’re prone to bursts of unexplained anxiety, or maybe we’ve...
5 Tips for Coping with Anxiety During Pregnancy Pregnancy is a wonderful thing, but that doesn’t make it easy. Especially when you can’t stop worrying about everything that could go wrong, when everything becomes so difficult you find it hard to breathe properly, when...
What Causes Postpartum Depression? You’ve recently given birth. You find yourself feeling sad or empty, maybe a little restless. You don’t have energy during the day, no motivation to do anything. You might be eating too little or, on the contrary, more than you used...
