Mental Health PPD/PPA Physical Recovery Feeding Sleep Longterm NICU Illness Medical Care Partner Dynamics Family Dynamics Support System Body Image Identity Shifts Developmental Milestones Back to Work Guilt Travel with Baby Learning to Parent
By Hannah R.
For the first almost four months of your life, we lived in bliss. You woke and boldly took in everything around you, fed greedily from my body and then fell deeply asleep. I naively thought "this parenting thing is way easier than my anxieties/society had led me to believe". Then stuck inside for 13 days in isolation, the dreaded "4 month sleep regression" occurred.
Read MoreBy Ellie L.
It never occurred to me that breastfeeding wouldn't work out. But it didn't. We're a formula family and I accept that now, tho I still have pangs of grief about the kind of bond I imagine breastfeeding creates. And at the same time, I can't imagine breastfeeding now.
Read MoreBy Ellie L.
While I feel in many ways like a different person than who I was before the baby, my old psychological patterns are still here, just now applied to parenthood: for me, the big ones are anxious attachment and perfectionism.
Read MoreBy Mika G.
When I brought you back home from the hospital, the excitement of determining my own parenting style flowed through my veins.
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