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[moms-anonymous]

To the Mom with Postpartum Depression

Little hands reaching up at you.

Constantly.. reaching.

Little cries directed at you.

They are paralyzing.. sometimes.

Little person needing you.

Constantly…are you there?

This is what you wanted right? How dare you be ungrateful. How dare you miss your free time. How dare you feel overwhelmed.

This little person needs you.

How dare you be…human.

When you have a baby, people forget you are a person. Sometimes you forget you are a person.

You can be someone’s mom, and still be yourself. You can love your child and be overwhelmed. You can ask for help and need a break .

This doesn’t make you a failure. This makes you human.

And this little person you’re raising..

They need you to be human. They need you to be here. Really here.

So know that, every time you feel guilty, you are doing a great job. You are a mom now- you are somebody’s whole world. And the good days outweigh the bad.

To the mom with postpartum depression- I promise everything will be okay again one day.

Until then, breathe, and remember it’s okay to be human.

[moms-anonymous]

My little man is 3 months already, and i dunno where the time went.

[moms-anonymous]

I think the postpartum anxiety is hitting harder than the postpartum depression and it sucks. It would suck either way but god damn I had a full panic attack tonight thinking I overfed my son and that he was suffocating, I’m constantly checking to see if he’s breathing when he’s asleep. He has bad gas and it makes him both look and sound like he’s in pain and it makes me cry because idk what to do for him. Always terrified I’m going to drop him or somehow accidentally give him SBS. Afraid when anyone’s in his face. I’m just constantly anxious all the time about him, and those were just a few examples. This shit is harder than I led myself to believe it was.

[moms-anonymous]

The hardest thing I've ever done is become a mom. It's also the proudest I've ever felt.