Helping New Moms with Baby Blues for Santa Rosa - Postp Partum Depression

"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."
- Judith Viorst

As a new mother, you might be feeling the opposite of how you think you are supposed to feel, Perhaps the demands of motherhood are so overwhelming that you have forbidden feelings, like walking away or giving up. Or you might be critical of yourself because you aren't connecting with your baby the way you thought you would, or think you should. It might be easy to think you should just get over these feelings and blame yourself that you don't.

These feelings are very common after childbirth. Even so, too few women talk about it. Consequently too many women who struggle with these feelings believe they are terrible moms, blame themselves and feel alone. You might be one of them.

If so, I would like to offer you the guidance and support you may be needing to make this new journey easier for you. If you are a mother for the first time or many times over, a new baby marks an enormous change in your life and in your identity. Regardless of your circumstances, difficulties in adjusting to this change are completely understandable and valid.

Together we will:

• address tendencies you may be having toward self-critiism, worry and unrealistic expectations. *trouble shoot the issues of new motherhood that feel most challenging for you
• cultivate more ease, joy and self-acceptance
• nurture your ability to provide care for yourself
• find answers for any questions and concerns you have about your mothering style and your baby.

Yes, this is a difficult passage you are in. It is temporary. It won't last forever, And it is important that you don't suffer it alone.