I’ve had this topic sort of bumping around in my brain for a while, and I think it’s finally time to talk about it. Obviously becoming a parent is a huge responsibility, but that’s not what I’m talking about when I say burden. The burden of parenting is not the responsibility that comes with becoming a parent. The burden of parenting is the burden of parenting yourself. Along with postpartum comes all kinds of banal horror. The things that a …
Tag: Mental Health
TW: discussion of pregnancy, sexual assault, etc. On June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was officially overturned in the United States by the Supreme Court. Back in May, we’d heard that this decision was coming when …
I know now that I'm not a lemon. But I think I still need to talk about how bad things got, and how quickly after I gave birth. In the early, delirious, sleep-deprived days, there was …
Moms matter, too. I know that probably seems obvious but to me, in the throes of postpartum, it wasn’t. Sure, people were concerned with how I was doing, but they were mostly concerned with how the …
Postpartumwtf.com was born out of a haze of postpartum depression, therapy, medication, self-reflection, recovery, and eventually hope. It seems appropriate to get this started during Mental Health Awareness week, because I don’t think you can talk …