If I could go back and give my postpartum self some advice, here’s what I’d say:

If I could go back and give my postpartum self some advice, here’s what I’d say:

It won’t last forever. This feeling of being… lost. You are not lost you are just transitioning. Language is everything.

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I hear a lot of people refer to “postpartum depression” as just “postpartum”. Here’s the problem with that.

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The word postpartum means after childbirth. Meaning the time after a woman has had a baby. Okay, what’s the point?.

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We need to understand that the postpartum period is fragile. It is a transition. It is filled with many physical and spiritual adjustments. It is an entity of its own. Going through the metamorphosis of motherhood after birth is completely different than experiencing a perinatal mood disorder. Caring for a mother with depression versus a mother that is not depressed but going through the intense stages of healing and caring for a newborn looks different.

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I feel that the more we just lump “postpartum” experiences all into one category the more we miss out on truly understanding the differences in those experiences. Especially understanding that a woman in the postpartum period might not be depressed but still might be in a very fragile place.

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