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#maternalmentalhealthawareness .
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▪️More than 1 in 10 women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or within a year after having a baby. .
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▪️7 in 10 women will hide or underplay the severity of their perinatal mental illness. .
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The Mummy Tribe encourages all women to talk about it so that they can get the help they need. .
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You are not alone, so let’s help spread the word by using the hashtag #maternalmentalhealth as it is Maternal Mental Health Day.
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When I made this meme, I felt nauseous and cried on my couch. Does it give you goosebumps? Does it make you not only ache for that baby but for the darkness Allison felt? Many us know what that darkness feels like. But that this mom took her own life, ensuring her child was safe before she did...I’m destroyed knowing it. Maternal mental health issues are REAL. Mothers are suffering in silence and dying. We are DYING. And from illnesses that are TEMPORARY with TREATMENT. We must educate. We must make everyone understand. We must speak up. We must be brave enough to raise our hands and ask, hell, BEG for help. If you know a mom who might be struggling, reach out to her. If you are struggling, reach out to someone. Start with @postpartumhelp. We cannot let another Allison happen. We just can’t. #MaternalMentalHealthAwareness #MMHWeek2019
Welcome to the #TogetherWeAlwaysRise Loop! ⋒
I have a mental health disorder. Before my boys were born those words, that statement, would not have been formulated in my mind. It is incredible to me that one of life’s greatest blessings could lead to such an internal war. Still I fight. Still I know that my need for help, both pharmacologically and therapeutically, does not define me as a person. Still I know that it does not define me as a mother. In April 2016 I became a member of the 1 in 5 tribe and three years in what an honor it has become. This group is made up of some of the strongest women there is. Women who are changing and saving lives, including their own. Women who are standing up, facing their most terrifying fears, and facing themselves. Still we fight.
The past three years have been some of the longest and hardest years I have ever known. When you’re fighting for your every existence time seems to stand still. I have often asked myself, “What have you become?,” because I can get so lost in the darkness, so lost in the spiral of emotions, thoughts, and worry. There are days where nothing quiets the beast inside me and it takes seconds for all of my progress to be erased from my memory. Still I fight. I always come back. Back to myself, back to the hope I never lost, back to the life I have been so blessed to have been given.
I have a mental health disorder. I am a damn good mother. I am a survivor. I matter. And so do you mama.
This week is #maternalmentalhealthawareness week and today is World Maternal Mental Health Day! I have teamed up with some incredible mamas who are changing the narrative and moving to end stigma against mental health. .
Check out these amazing women who are breaking barriers and sharing their journey thru MMH. Join the fight and rise with us! .
@dionnachambers
@mrsbrittanypride
@thepeacefulhomemaker
@this.mama.is
@trainer_tamara
@completely.maginlee
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Give It All You Got tank @coveredhands
I feel super strange posting this photo, but it’s so important to show all sides of motherhood. This was almost three years ago. I had been a mother for nearly two years, had been breastfeeding for 21 months, and had not slept through the night regularly in 18 months. I was a stay-at-home mother (with a few babysitter hours per week to be fully transparent), had launched Tribe two months prior, and was default parent 24/7. We were traveling. Asher had spent a few hours throwing up—quick stomach bug or something. And then it hit me. I did my absolute best balancing being default parent and being nauseous, throwing up, and getting dehydrated. And then I couldn’t do it any longer. I pretty much begged to go to the hospital. How weird/sad is that...begging and excited to go to the hospital? I was so relieved when I got there. I desperately needed to get away for a few hours, have zero responsibility, and have other people care for me. I also needed to get better FAST to go back to parenting. Over the last few years, I’ve been heavily processing my motherhood/postpartum journey (through reading, conversations, and multiple therapists). What I’ve come to learn is that my struggles, my feeling depressed and anxious at times, and my unhappiness was situational/environmental and mainly stemmed from a lack of support. And still, I’m thankful my situation wasn’t worse. It very well could have been. Did you know that the leading cause of death for new mothers is suicide? Maternal Mental Health (MMH) disorders include a range of disorders including depression, anxiety, and psychosis and can occur within pregnancy or the postpartum period (together often referred to as the perinatal period). When left untreated, these disorders can cause devastating consequences for the mother, her baby, her family and society. Please speak up, get help, share your story. #makingovermotherhood #maternalmentalhealthawarenessweek #maternalmentalhealthawareness @thebluedotprj @motherhoodunderstood
We had not planned to have kids. In fact we loved our independence and life until one night I asked my husband if we would regret not having kids when we’re older and if we would feel there was a void at some point. We both answered, “Yes,” to that question and the journey began.
After a great deal of testing I found out I had challenges surrounding my ovarian reserve. If we were going to become parents IVF was our best shot. In May 2015 we had our first failed attempt. I was devastated and felt weak and incapable. Incapable of having a body to grow a child, incapable of making my husband a father, incapable of having the strength to try again. And we didn’t. We took a break, enjoyed our summer and at the end of July began our last covered round of IVF. If this didn’t work I could not put my body thru it again. September 2015 we saw two heartbeats and two sacs that resembled angel wings. April 2016 we welcomed two healthy baby boys into the world. Within 48 hours the lights went out.
I was on the brink of panic attacks, I would shake, hysterically cry, stare out of the window of the hospital swallowed by a numbness that left me lifeless. We went home four days after they were born and I remember walking thru the door to our home with a feeling as if I had been slowly drowning the past few days and now have been pulled under. For one week I contemplated giving one of my babies up for adoption because two babies just seemed like too much. “I don’t want this, I can’t do this!,” played on repeat in my mind. I couldn’t do it, until I did. I talked about the fear, the sadness and the breathlessness. I fought, hard, clawing my way to a light I had to believe was there. I clung to hope like a life raft. It was all I had left.
Three years later I am still fighting and so proud of how far I have come. My journey thru maternal mental health is raw, real, and terrifying at times, but to have pushed thru that kind of hard has been one of the greatest victories of my life and I will never give up.
EMOTIONAL LOAD: It’s been proven that the burden of round-the-clock responsibilities of being a mother and the emotional responsibilities of raising children is damaging women’s mental health. Researchers looked at how so-called “invisible labour” was linked to feelings of being overwhelmed and a sense of emptiness in women's day-to-day lives. So what can we do to tackle this...? Well as part of MMH week @marybadassmeadows and I are opening up our usually private Live session to our @badassloveslife members tonight at 8pm to everyone as we discuss how to tackle/manage the emotional load. We’d love you to join us as 8pm... all you need to do is keep an eye on my page and watch for when I go Live later. And if you like what you see, our virtual doors are currently open for new members (we allow new people in for a short window each month in between topics). To join you must follow the link in my bio rather than requesting to follow @badassloveslife (we give you access after you’ve signed up!). #badassloveslife #bemorebadass #suicideprevention #maternalsuiciderates #unfilteredmotherhood #maternalmhmatters #maternalmentalhealthweek #mumsmatter #muthasmatter #mmhw #mmhw2019 #maternalmhweek #maternalmentalhealthweek #melaternalmentalhealthweek2019 #maternalmentalhealthawareness #maternalmentalhealthmatters #depressionwearslippy #asktwice by @brooklyn_rabbit
”Having a baby—like dying—is one of the great transitions that we face for which there can be no rehearsal. But that doesn’t mean there can be no preparation. At the very least, we can be prepared to be disoriented and shocked. This awareness can be helpful. It is when mothers exchange stories about the difficult weeks after childbirth that they start to feel stronger. If everyone else is finding it hard going, it puts troubles in a new perspective. We may be shocked when we first have babies, but at least we could recognize that, given how unprepared we are, this is only to be expected.
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A woman in the first shock of love is expected to be dreamy and forgetful. A person bereaved is expected to feel lonely and tearful. Mothers may be given a ‘running-in’ period of a couple of weeks. After that, they are usually expected to be calm and capable. Would it not be much more realistic to expect new mothers to be unprepared, anxious, confused and very emotional for at least the first six months? If we could accept that this beginning is the norm for most mothers, we would be in a better position to be supportive and respectful.”
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{Excerpt from: “What Mothers Do” by Naomi Stadlen}
Its Maternal Mental Health Week and one that is very important to me and the work I do. This week I will be sharing posts all centered around Maternal Mental Health.
1 in 5 Mothers are affected by a perinatal mood + anxiety disorder (PMAD). We have a big job to do if we want to unpack the myth of the “perfect mother” and address the well-being of our mothers today.
I get a ton of inquiries about why mothers struggle so much today compared to previous generations. I think the answer to this is complicated and involves many factors. In order to break the stigma, we must tell our stories. Normalize. Validate. The spectrum of postpartum is BIG and wide. What’s different for moms today?
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• focus on baby only rather than the focus of the mom + baby dyad
• less and less exposure to life with young babies - how many of us held for and cared for a baby prior to our own?
• we’ve lost the village - people are busy and consumed in their own lives and the digital world
• the myth of the ”perfect” mother
• women are finding their voices, getting comfortable with strong emotions that we were once institutionalized for. We are talking about anger + rage unlike previous generations, normalizing the many faces of Motherhood
• as we have children later in life, the generation of grandparents are older resulting in less energy + mobility
• Postnatal Depletion
• social media + the internet depicting highlight reels of everyone’s life
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#MMHWeek2019 #MaternalMentalHealth #maternalmentalhealthawareness #maternalmentalhealthmatters #makingovermotherhood
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Words in Photo by @thelactationtherapist
“You don’t look depressed”, “you don’t look mental”, “but you always look so put together”...how many times? There is NO look, we can’t discriminate, as mental ill health doesn’t discriminate, it affects us all, and if someone has chosen to use a hairbrush or a swipe of lippy this doesn’t mean their suffering is any less. .
Today marks the start of Maternal Mental Health week 2019 and the official hashtag is #makingovermotherhood - asking us to drop the filter (online and offline) and tell our truth about the realities of parenting as well as mental illhealth. However “put together” that other mum may look, however much she appears to be coping, inside is often a very different story. Suicide is still the biggest killer of mums with under one year olds. We need to change this. Your social media feed hopefully will be awash with posts like mine and people bravely sharing their stories, my hope for the week is that by us all sharing our truths we can all reach one person struggling, one mum who thinks they are alone, one parent who believes they’ve failed, one person on the edge who collectively we can make them see YOU HAVEN’T FAILED, YOU AREN’T ALONE and IT WILL GET BETTER. .
If you, or anyone you know, is struggling with their mental health - please reach out and speak to your GP or a mental health professional. To find what is available in your area check out @chasingthestigma Hub of Hope and know you aren’t alone x
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