By Mandy Lehman Trigger Warning: Intrusive Thoughts Medical and mental health professionals will tell you that if anxiety or depression...

By Megan Wahl, MDT | December 16, 2019 Trigger Warning: Birth trauma, Postpartum OCD Megan and her baby boy When I had my first baby, I...

By Megan Nazaret To have another baby or not to have another baby. That is the question. This decision can be hard for all parents, but...

By Kristi Rapp, MMHI Board Co-Chair Trigger Warning: intrusive thoughts My son Grayson was born in June of 2011. For many women, the day...

By Ashley Mueller Joining the board of MMHI has been life changing for me. After the birth of my second child, I experienced tremendous...

By Amelia Toporsh Dear Friend, If you’re reading this you are likely suffering from, a survivor of, or a support person to an individual...

By Becky Schroeder, Co-Founder, Moms Mental Health Initiative Schroeder, pictured with her daughter. “She doesn’t like to be passed...

Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders can destroy hope. We’re on a mission to bring it back. By Sarah Ornst Bloomquist, Co-founder and...

Trigger warning: Suicidal thoughts and ideation Stock Image by Jenna Norman via Unsplash My perfect little boy was born in January 2019....

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, Yuletide carols being sung by the choir and folks dressed up like...

I look at this photo, taken nearly two years after my experience with postpartum psychosis, and think “Wow, I never thought I’d get here....

Trigger warning: birth trauma I watched my son as he fell asleep in my arms today. In a simple way, it was magical. The way he gazed at...

I didn’t ask to be a NICU mom. No one hopes that the first time they see their baby that he or she is tangled in a web of medical tape...

Crying tears of joy, relief, gratitude, and everything in between, I looked at my newborn baby girl and said, “WE did this together.”...

My journey with PPD started very quickly after my first was born. Leading up to giving birth, I was happy, full of life, and overjoyed to...

“We’re pregnant!” As a Dad of now four kiddos, I remember the mix of excitement and terror that came with our first positive pregnancy...

Trigger Warning: suicidal thoughts The Light went out. “You’re glowing!” – I heard it so many times during my pregnancy. I felt the glow;...

Dear postpartum-OCD, I hate you. I hate you for SO many reasons. I hate you for creeping up on me at a time in my life that was supposed...

I didn’t see it coming – literally. Our first baby came on Christmas Eve. His labor was “spontaneous,” though I had obsessively done all...

Moms Need to Know PPD is a Disease. With recent news of the FDA’s approval of Zulessro (brexanolone), a new drug to treat postpartum...