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Articles on motherhood, anxiety, relationships, and the expectations we live with.
With Dr. Jana Rundle · Clinical Psychologist
I wish I'd known about the grief, the constant second-guessing and the support that might not arrive as expected. Those are the three lessons at the heart of this post.
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You can miss your baby and feel relieved to have a quiet hour. Plan a break that belongs to you, and know when persistent dread or disconnection deserves more support.
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The expectations can exceed the hours, energy and help you actually have. Look at the visible and invisible work before treating a hard day as a personal failure.
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A baby can fill your day while you miss adult conversation, friendship and familiar parts of yourself. Naming that loneliness gives people a clearer way to support you.
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Sleep, support, health history and the demands of a particular baby can make postpartum very different from one mom to another. Those differences belong in the conversation about depression.
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Psychologist Pauline Boss's idea of ambiguous loss helps explain why some losses in pregnancy and early parenthood are so hard to grieve. How it applies to miscarriage, stillbirth, a baby's diagnosis, and the NICU, plus other losses moms often don't realize they're allowed to grieve, and what helps.
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