Do you feel you are becoming progressively more irritable and anxious rather than less?

Are you waking up in the middle of the night to check if your baby is still breathing? Are scary thoughts about something bad happening to you or to your baby filling your mind? The exhaustion is crippling, your brain is foggy, but you still have to take care of your baby.

You feel like you have sacrificed your body, your career, your mind to have a baby, and you are so tired.  Your body is heavy from the weight you carry.

Every moment of the day is filled with “to dos” or someone pulling your sleeve for something.  Sometimes you can barely catch your breath, let alone take the time you need to feel like you again.  Everything feels like an endlessly draining cycle, and there is never enough time or support, or energy. You feel trapped. 

Do you ask yourself, “How can this really be so hard? There must be something wrong with me?”

You are not alone!

The transitions faced during parenthood leave many new parents feeling they are barely treading water. What you are feeling is treatable and temporary.

If you are struggling with these feelings of isolation, powerlessness, or shame, it might be a good time to reach out. You don’t have to be struggling the most to be struggling.

You deserve to feel better and to get the support you need.