Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Navigating Anxiety, Motherhood, and the Power of Perinatal Mental Health Care
By Maggie Meyers [Trigger warning: child loss] In 2016, I made a decision I thought was best for my future family: I weaned off my SSRI medication, which I had…
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I was 28 when I had my first baby, when most of my peers were just meeting lifelong partners. The pregnancy went smoothly until the last trimester, when I was…
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I had my child on April 3rd, 2020. That day is such a blur. It was not how it was supposed to be. It was terrifying and traumatizing, and I…
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Shortly after getting married, I found out I was pregnant with my third baby, my first with my husband. With my older two children, I had not struggled with any…
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I was 38 years old when I became pregnant with my first son, Sebastian, who is now 4. As a woman who had her first pregnancy after 35, I received…
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This post includes discussion of pregnancy loss. This content may be triggering – please read at your own pace. I had my daughter in August 2020 after moving to a…
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