Support, advice, and resources for mums struggling with postpartum challenges, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, stress, and mental wellbeing.
Do you wonder how to enjoy Christmas with kids when you’re just not feeling it? Our first Christmas with the twins in 2016 was nothing like I expected. As much as I love them, it can also be utterly exhausting. But thatās motherhood, right? Some days are full of joy, and others are filled with …
Hello! If we haven’t met yet, I am Ivana. I run MumsJourney, a blog dedicated to supporting mums through every stage of motherhood. Iām 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 ānew mum glow.ā But now that the baby is here, it’s nothing like what you pictured. Instead of glowing, you feel drained and quietly wondering, āAm I the only one finding this so hard?ā You are not alone feeling like this. After …
We all know that postnatal depression (PPD) can affect new mums. But whatās not talked about enough is that it can affect anyone who spends time with a baby. I didnāt 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 (postpartum) depression? As a new mum, you have probably heard about postnatal depression (PPD) from your doctor or GP, midwife, or at a prenatal class. But most likely, you only scratched the surface of the subject. No one told you: what postnatal depression really is how it feels how to spot the …
Before It Hit: What Postaprtum Depression (PPD) Survivors Really Knew (and Didnāt Know Before I became a mum, I thought I understood postnatal depression. Iād 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 …
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