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Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

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By Brooke Shields — 2006

In this compelling memoir, Brooke Shields talks candidly about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, and provides millions of women with an inspiring example of recovery. See more...

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It Wasn’t Supposed to be Like This: A Postpartum Depression Survival Guide With Over 100 Ideas to Manage Loneliness, Sadness and Guilt So You Can Begin to Enjoy Motherhood

An easy-to-read survival guide for those struggling under the relentless weight of postpartum depression. Written by a mother who understands exactly how it feels to see yourself as the worst parent in the world.

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Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month

Take charge of your pregnancy. For trusted advice, turn to Your Pregnancy and Childbirth: Month to Month from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Mama, You Are Enough: How to Create Calm, Joy, and Confidence Within the Chaos of Motherhood

An Honest and Revolutionary Guide to the Emotions Moms Feel But Seldom Talk About A few years ago, Dr. Claire Nicogossian began noticing a trend in her therapy room: Mothers are struggling with the challenging and unexpected emotions that surface during their journey through motherhood.

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The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties.

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Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet.

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Birthmarks: True Stories from Real Mothers

Motherhood is dirty and smelly and intense and exhausting and terrible and wonderful, and sometimes all at once. We mothers are conditioned; however, to pretend it’s all easy, it’s all love, and it’s all joy.

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Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothers first, offering straightforward guidance on all the options and issues that matter most to them (and their partners) when preparing for a baby.

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Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America

A groundbreaking exposé and diagnosis of the silent epidemic of fear afflicting new mothers, and a candid, feminist deep dive into the culture, science, history, and psychology of contemporary motherhood. Anxiety among mothers is a growing but largely unrecognized crisis.

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Motherhood Stripped

Motherhood Stripped is a guide to understanding the anxiety in motherhood and how to heal from it one layer at a time.

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This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking.

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Postpartum Depression