Support, advice, and resources for mums struggling with postpartum challenges, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, stress, and mental wellbeing.
Hello! If we haven’t met yet, I am Ivana. I run MumsJourney, a blog dedicated to supporting mums through every stage of motherhood. I’m also the author of Motherhood: The Unspoken and an award-winning maternal mental health advocate and mentor. After giving birth to my twins in 2016, I experienced severe postpartum depression (PPD). It …
Before your baby arrived, you probably imagined snuggles, overhwelming love, and that magical “new mum glow.” But now that the baby is here, it’s nothing like what you pictured. Instead of glowing, you feel drained and quietly wondering, “Am I the only one finding this so hard?” You are not alone feeling like this. After …
We all know that postnatal depression (PPD) can affect new mums. But what’s not talked about enough is that it can affect anyone who spends time with a baby. I didn’t realise this either: until I saw my brother in law struggling after just two weeks of staying with our twin boys. His experience opened …
What is postnatal depression (PPD)? It’s one of the most misunderstood conditions in motherhood. Postnatal depression isn’t just about feeling low or sad. And it sure as hell doesn’t mean being depressed about having a baby. It’s a serious illness, justl like cancer or diabetes. If you’re pregnant or a new mum, chances are you’ve …
Before It Hit: What Postaprtum Depression (PPD) Survivors Really Knew (and Didn’t Know Before I became a mum, I thought I understood postnatal depression. I’d heard the term, maybe seen it mentioned in passing. But the truth? I knew next to nothing. I never imagined it could happen to me. Not because I thought I …
When I first heard about a mum running a marathon shortly after giving birth, my reaction wasn’t wow. It was wait… what was really going on behind that? Because stories like this aren’t about fitness. They’re about survival. Identity. And finding something to hold onto when motherhood turns your world upside down. So I asked …
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