Read about Dr. Erika's personal story about postpartum depression here. I'm going to talk today a little bit about how to treat postpartum depression naturally, and some things you may want to speak to your doctor about if you think you have postpartum depression or...
You’re tired. I get it. You’re sick of feeling sick. You’re exhausted when you wake up. You crash sometime around 3 in the afternoon. (Or maybe 7 p.m.) It’s been a long time since you have felt like YOU. I know. I’ve been there. It’s hard. Maybe it’s...
My own experience with postpartum depression started 6 weeks after the birth of my first child, Annika. I remember clearly that it was a Friday, Annika was “colicky” (or so they said) and had one of her fits of crying that lasted about 45 minutes. ...
It was six weeks after Annika was born, on a Friday, that it hit me. Annika was having another one of her “colic” fits of uncontrollable crying. (The crying that is completely unsoothable, regardless of how many of Dr. Karp’s “S’s” I try.) Annika’s uncontrollable...