Stories of Hope

Speaking My Postpartum Truth

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...

Helping Moms Find What She Needed During Postpartum Anxiety & Depression

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

Letter From 100 Days of Motherhood With a Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorder

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...

Postpartum Depression Recovery Comes In Small Glimmers of Hope

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

Building Hope In The Ruins of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders

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

Postpartum Anxiety Happened So Quickly

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

Finding Inner Rhythm during the Holidays

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

A Story of Hope: Jessica’s Story

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....

A Story of Hope: Talia’s Story – Love Takes Time

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

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...

A Post of Hope: Kiah’s Story

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

A Post of Hope: Katie’s Story

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...

Dads and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

“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...

The Light Went Out–My Postpartum Journey

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

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...

A Post of Hope: Heather’s Story

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

PPD is a Disease

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...

The Silent Struggle after Miscarriage

You are not alone. We hear this phrase in the maternal mental health community so often. But to a mom who who has experienced a...

I Take Medication for my PPOCD

Let’s talk meds. You’re not alone if the idea of having this conversation makes you uncomfortable. Because for some reason, we are still...

What is a PMAD?

For too long, the media has used postpartum depression as a blanket term used to encompass all perinatal mood and anxiety disorders...