Supporting Yourself During IVF: Emotional & Mental Survival Guide
IVF asks a lot of your body, but almost no one prepares you for how much it asks of your mind. The shots, the appointments, the waiting, the hope and the fear riding side by side, it is a lot to carry, often while you try to act normal at work and at home. Supporting […]
Infertility Grief Stages: What No One Talks About
Grief usually gets talked about when someone dies. But there is a kind of grief that comes with infertility that almost no one names out loud, and it can leave you feeling like you are losing your mind when really you are just grieving. If you are trying to grow your family and it is […]
How Pregnancy Hormones Affect Your Emotions (Complete Guide)
One minute you are laughing at a commercial, the next you are sobbing over it, and you have no idea why. You feel irritable, then weepy, then anxious, sometimes all before lunch. If your feelings have been on a wild ride since you got pregnant, there is a real reason. Pregnancy hormones and mood are […]
Birth Plan Anxiety: How to Prepare Without Overwhelming Yourself
You sat down to write your birth plan, and an hour later you are three tabs deep in horror stories, your chest is tight, and you feel less ready than when you started. If putting together a birth plan has cranked up your worry instead of calming it, you are not alone. Birth plan anxiety […]
Why the Third Trimester Feels So Overwhelming (& How to Cope)
You are in the home stretch, and instead of feeling ready, you feel like you are drowning. Your body is heavy and sore, sleep is a joke, and your brain will not stop running the list of everything that still is not done. If third trimester stress has you feeling more frazzled than excited, you […]
10 Warning Signs of Postpartum Burnout You Shouldn’t Ignore
You are not just tired. You are the kind of tired that sleep does not fix, running on fumes, snapping at the people you love, and feeling like you are failing at the one job that matters most. If that sounds familiar, you might be dealing with more than normal new-mom exhaustion. Postpartum burnout signs […]
Feeling Disconnected from Your Baby? Here’s What It Really Means
Everyone told you that the moment you held your baby, you would feel a rush of love like nothing else. For a lot of moms, that moment does not come the way they expected. You look at your baby and feel not much, or a flat kind of going through the motions, and then a […]
Postpartum Identity Crisis: Why You Feel Lost After Baby (& How to Reconnect)
You love your baby. And you also stand in front of the mirror some days and barely recognize the person looking back. The things that used to make you you, your work, your friends, your body, your free time, feel far away, and in their place is a role that swallows your whole day. If […]
The Hidden Link Between Sleep Loss & Anxiety You Shouldn’t Ignore
It is 3am. You are bone-tired but wired, heart beating a little too fast, mind running through everything you forgot to do and everything that could go wrong. Then the sun comes up and the worry follows you around all day. If your nights have been broken for weeks or months, there is a reason […]
Staying Mentally Strong During Fertility Waiting Periods
The two-week wait. The stretch between treatments. The days until the next scan. If you are in fertility treatment, you know that so much of it is just waiting, and the waiting might be the hardest part of all. Dealing with waiting cycles wears on your mind in a way that is tough to put […]