The baby arrives and you know you are supposed to be excited about it. Why don’t you feel that overwhelming joy & love for that child? Perhaps your birth did not turn out as you had hoped. Breastfeeding was not as easy as you thought it would be. Or perhaps your partner is overwhelmed too, and doesn’t know how to support you.
Soon sleep deprivation is causing you to delve into deep dark places & thoughts you had never before imagined. And you wish that the world would slow down, for just a minute. Maybe you sat there holding a screaming child and thought to yourself, “Is this my life now?”
Well mama, you are not alone. Many of us have felt this or some version of it.
This Saturday, March 19th from 10-11am PST on CFAX 1070, (you can stream live from your computer) we will open up the discussion on postpartum depression, and help dissolve the isolation and guilt so many women feel about their experience when it is turns out less than June Cleaver-like.
I will chat with author Kathleen Kendall-Tackett about postpartum depression and the hidden feelings of motherhood. Also joining me will be a panel of moms, Robin Farr and Katharine Holmes, describing their own experiences with postpartum depression.
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and International Board Certified lactation consultant, and the author or editor of 20 books in the fields of trauma, women’s health, depression and breastfeeding, in addition to authoring hundreds of journal articles and other publications. Among her numerous books, Kathleen is the author of The Hidden Feelings of Motherhood, Depression in New Mothers, and co-author of Breastfeeding Made Simple. She also runs the websites UppityScienceChick.com and BreastfeedingMadeSimple.com.
Robin Farr lives in Victoria and is mom to Connor (almost 3). She writes about her 
struggle with postpartum depression on her blog, Farewell, Stranger, which she started early in 2011 as a way to share her experience. In the short time she’s been blogging she’s found a community of parents who have struggled with PPD and has discovered that talking about it is actually okay and that none of us is nearly as alone as being a parent sometimes makes us feel.
In her other life she works as an internal communications director for the BC Public Service.
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