Posts belonging to Category 'postpartum anxiety'

in the late, late, late night.

In the late, late, late night anxiety whispers to me, it’s voice feather quiet and razor sharp. You don’t get to keep him. He won’t stay long. He is to precious for this world. He will be leaving you soon. This is different than the anxiety I suffered from earlier, a World War Two air [...]

Postpartum Progress Strong Start Day.

Today is my mother in law’s birthday. Happy Birthday Robin! It is also the day on which more babies are born than any other day of the year.   I’ve made no secret that I grappled, and continue to struggle with postpartum anxiety. I’ve blogged about it, written about it, and of course reported on [...]

Just Sitting here on the corner of Awesome and Bombdiggity.

{via Pinterest} Yup. Today is my birthday and  have decided that in this, my thirtieth (again) year I shall simply be awesome. Oh, I don’t mean that suddenly my head has exploded with ego…no, no. I am still the same insecure wreck I was last year. My brain is still a constant cycle of negative [...]

Helter Skelter.

When you have postpartum anxiety, as I do, you can be feeling fine, taking your meds, and using the breathing exercises you’ve been taught and then suddenly its like that scene in JAWS. You know the one where the lovely bikini clad woman is happily swimming along and then is suddenly pulled underwater by some [...]

The one where I bare my soul…

Holding on for dear life. I love working with iVillage.com love it. I love working with my fellow iVoices and I admit that I’ve been jealous a time or two of their brilliant reports and how funny and comfortable they are on camera. Oh, sure I’ve got hours logged on the tv, but it is [...]