"I felt like I was drowning.
My baby was easy, but my normally stable emotions were raging. I didn’t know how to cope with them or my life. With our first baby, I fell head over heels in love the instant I saw her. This time, I felt distant from my baby. Instead of the logic and attention to detail that usually characterized me, I was scatterbrained and forgetful. Nights were miserable, but days were no better. Even little things, like spilling a cup of water or the baby waking early from a nap, set off my anger.
This was not the idyllic postpartum I had worked so hard to prepare for."
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Kyleigh Dunn is wife to Ezra and mother to three young girls. She reads obsessively, enjoys playing oboe and piano, and seeks to spread awareness of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the church and apply theology and biblical encouragement to moms experiencing them. Kyleigh blogs at www.thesojourningdunns.wordpress.com and can be found on Instagram @kyleighrdunn or Facebook @thesojourningdunns.
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*If you are struggling with postpartum depression or other perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, please know that you are not alone and there is real, effective help for what you’re going through! I have a resource page on my blog (https://thesojourningdunns.wordpress.com/resources-for-pmads/), and Postpartum Support International (https://www.postpartum.net/) has a warmline, provider directory, and many other resources.
