KatieMarie

Birth trauma survivor here. When I was 3 days PP, my sister-in-law sent me a text. She and I have never had a particularly close relationship, but what she said was so important for me to hear. I appreciated her words more than she will ever know. The thing I needed to hear most was that affirmations arounds how hard my experience was, that it totally sucked and that it was OK to feel sad for myself and disconnected from my baby. I think we need to expose how ugly our feelings can be during this period to encourage more moms talk about their experiences in real ways. Later, I was encouraged by friends to seek mental health services and am so grateful they helped normalize this for me. I needed help and getting it has changed my life (and by proxy, my child and husband’s lives), for the better.