Mom Rage: How to Chill and Enjoy Motherhood More

Mom Rage: How to Chill and Enjoy Motherhood More

Mom rage is an intense, overwhelming anger that many mothers experience, often triggered by the relentless demands of parenting. Unlike ordinary frustration, mom rage involves powerful emotional and physical symptoms such as a racing heart, tight chest, and sudden, intense anger. This anger can be linked to factors like sleep deprivation, anxiety, the mental load of parenting, and societal expectations. Recognizing the signs of mom rage is crucial for finding effective strategies to manage it, ensuring better emotional health for mothers and their families.

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The Pressure to Breastfeed: Feeding Choices of New Moms

The Pressure to Breastfeed: Feeding Choices of New Moms

Even in 2020, there is still a lot of pressure around how a woman feed her baby. Phrases like “breast is best” and “liquid gold” circulate mommy blogs and instagram posts. Whether you are deciding between breastfeeding or formula feeding, deciding the best formula to give your baby, switching from breastmilk to formula, supplementing or mixing breastmilk and formula, or any other kind of feeding, the reality is there are a lot of opinions.

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Disappointment as a Mom: How Gender, Birth Plans & Health Impacts New Moms

Disappointment as a Mom: How Gender, Birth Plans & Health Impacts New Moms

We're talking about gender disappointment, medical disappointment, and birth disappointment. Maybe it's just not being ready to be a mom yet. Maybe it's the disappointment of how something has gone differently than the way you anticipated. The struggle I see here is that we don't often feel okay to have joy and disappointment coexisting with gratitude. Many new moms have this feeling of grief and disappointment over how something has gone.

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New Mom Therapist: Guide to Finding a Maternal Therapist You Can Trust

New Mom Therapist: Guide to Finding a Maternal Therapist You Can Trust

Having a baby changes many areas of your life- it changes your body, your mind, your energy, your relationships, your work, your identity. In the midst of these big transitions, many women benefit from having an outside perspective from a professional perinatal therapist. However, when you are knee-deep in new motherhood, it can be difficult to know where to turn.

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