Giving birth is transformative.Eighty percent of women experience pregnancy
and birth as positive. Gradually these women adjust to the new physical and
emotional demands of around the clock motherhood.Slowly life takes on a new normal as mother
and baby adjust and life is fine.
For 20% of women, it’s not that way at all.Life’s not fine.Although physically healing, many women find
themselves on an emotional journey they never expected.Not feeling like themselves anymore, they
move through the pregnancy/postpartum experience increasingly overwhelmed and
exhausted.They can feel inadequate,
anxious, sad, unmotivated, confused, angry – even terrified.Sleep deprived and desperate to cope, these
new Moms inch further and further away from “normal” as they increasingly feel
despair and or panic while trying to hide the turmoil inside.
These women are not failing motherhood.Rather they are experiencing the symptoms of
postpartum anxiety and depression, the most
common complication of childbirth.These
symptoms have a very real biological basis.Painful and debilitating, they don’t get better on their own.
Postpartum
anxiety and depression is 100%
treatable with a combination of supportive therapy and in some cases
medication that is well established in the research as safe for mother and
your developing baby.Working cooperatively with you,
your partner and other health care providers, you can soon feel normal again as
life moves on for you and your new little one.