Amanda Osowski

Dear community, please be patient with me. This is one of the hardest, most vulnerable articles I've shared. I shared in part one some of my history with postpartum mood...

My husband and I spent 7 years dealing with infertility. We spent a long time trying to conceive on our own, then we sought medical assistance. After 4 failed IUIs...

While I struggled through postpartum anxiety (PPA) and postpartum depression (PPD) with the birth of my daughter 4.5 years ago, I had all of the resources I needed in place...

As someone who lived with depression and anxiety prior to trying to conceive and during my pregnancy, I had already spent years with my trustworthy therapist. We'd done so much...

We've all been there. We’ve all seen the way that the pregnancy and postpartum period has been glorified. Look at this perfect baby you have! You're so lucky! They're so...

I've shared a lot on pregnancy and postpartum depression (PPD), but another common mental health challenge for new parents is pregnancy and/or postpartum anxiety (PPA). Approximately 10 percent of postpartum...

Postpartum depression can look different for each individual person, just as regular depression may present itself differently - some aspects or symptoms being more prevalent or severe in some individuals...

As someone who has experienced postpartum depression (PPD) after living with regular daily depression, I've learned that there are parts of my mood I have control over actively shifting, and...

I have lived with depression on and off since my teenage years. Sometimes it was better controlled, other times it was extremely challenging. I'd been on and off medications –...

Our daughter was an IVF baby. Before I got pregnant with her, we tried for a year on our own, then we went through nearly a year of fertility treatments...

After a year of trying to conceive a second child, we returned to IVF. Due to COVID delays (IVF was not an essential procedure, and therefore was not immediately available...

As a doula, I've spoken with many new parents about struggles in bonding with their new baby. Whether it takes minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months, for some parents...

It was 5:00 a.m. on "test day" – 8 days after my frozen embryo transfer, and I was alone in my bathroom, holding my breath as I waited for my...

This is probably the hardest post I'll write. But I think it's critical to write, because there wasn't anything I could find on the topic when I initially looked, 2...

I recently shared how I managed my depression while trying to conceive. About 10 months into that journey, I decided to seek help (and ask questions) from my OB. While...

I was diagnosed with depression in 2013, 4 years later than I should've been, and a year before I met my now husband. I was medicated and in therapy, and...

The third trimester of pregnancy is the one where you're supposed to "relax" and prepare, right? On one hand, we were looking for a new house, preventing my ability to...