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Post Partum Depression

Postpartum Rage is Common in New Mothers

Robin Farr | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Alberta
Robin Farr

Imagine a time you totally lost your temper. When you were so consumed by anger you felt it as a physical thing, adrenaline racing through your body and blocking out all rational thought. When your first instinct, as though it were primal, was to throw something so it would shatter into a thousand pieces and break whatever spell had overtaken you.

Maternity Leave or Work: Postpartum Women's Happiness May Hang in the Balance

Maria Lianos-Carbone | Posted 04.28.2012 | Canada Living
Maria Lianos-Carbone

Researchers found that 71 per cent of mothers in their sample were not doing what they really wanted to do postpartum, whether it was staying home or going back to work. This is saddening to me because most postpartum women are not happy with their circumstances when it is supposed to be a time of joy.