EPDS Question 3 Blaming Myself

This is my third post in a series looking at my response as a Christian to the Edinburgh Postnatal Scale (EPDS), the postpartum survey given to a mother after having a baby. The main goal of these screening questions is to get a temperature reading on the mother’s mental state, specifically looking for common symptoms…

EPDS Question 2: Enjoyment Part 2

As the follow up to my last blog post on enjoyment, I’d love to share some practicals about my journey of coming out from under the rock of major depression. I really needed the help of everyone in my life to battle this and they helped me to have things to look forward to.  Looking…

EPDS Question 2: Enjoyment part 1

My past two posts spoke on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a survey that new moms may receive at their obstetrician’s office.  This is the exact survey that I received, but I understand that there are others out there that may have slightly different wording.  The goal is the same though: to gauge whether…

EPDS Question 1: Silver Linings

As a follow up to last week’s post, I will address the first question on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), my thought process as I sought to answer, and Scriptures I learned that addressed it. The first question asks the mother to check the box that is the closest to how she has felt…

PPD : Scale out of balance

In the previous posts, I tried to reveal my swirling thoughts and different things that I struggled with soon after having my second child.  This post will explain more of the surrounding details and why I wasn’t able to see that it was a symptom of Postpartum Depression at the time. A week and a…

PPD : My steady Anchor

There have been seasons in my life where I felt adrift or lost at sea. Emotions have swelled and crashed and left me breathless. Yet, nothing compares to the utter terror I felt in the midst of Hurricane Postpartum. Maybe you know the gut-wrenching feeling of being blown about without anything to grab on to.…

A feeling of “something’s not right”

It was December 2017 and I was seven-weeks postpartum after a C-section. It was then that I began to notice that something was a bit off. I had already gone to my six-week obstetrician (OB) checkup and things seemed to be fine.  According to my obstetrician/gynecologist office, I had a ‘better’ score on my postpartum…

First steps

I am not a doctor, counselor, or psychologist. I’m simply a Christian mother who walked through the valley of Postpartum depression (PPD) and desires to help any other mother with encouragement based on God's word. I found it very difficult to find biblical material directly written for women going through PPD and had to work…

A Step of Faith

This blog thing has completely come out of the blue, and this is how I know it is of God.   I had never been interested in blogging, or even reading a blog before.  Full disclosure: I'm not a writer, in fact, writing is something that I avoid because I do not feel gifted at all…