Mothering through the darkness : women open up about post-partum depression

Smock, Jessica, (editor.). Sprenger, Stephanie, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781631528040
ISBN: 1631528041
Physical Description: print
iii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley, CA : SWP, She Writes Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Karen Kleiman -- Introduction / Jessica Smock & Stephanie Sprenger -- Here comes the sun / Maggie Smith -- It got better, but it took a long time to get good / Jen Simon -- Life with no room / Celeste Noelani McLean -- Afterbirth / Dana Schwartz -- Scar tissue / Maureen Fura -- I love you, leave me alone / Kate Kearns -- A different shade of the baby blues / Jill Robbins -- The comeback / Kara Overton -- Even shamans get the blues / Alana Joblin Ain -- His baby watermelon head / Kristi Rieger Campbell -- Open sesame / Elizabeth Bastos -- Fragments of a fractured mind / Eve Kagan -- Sometimes there aren't enough bags of chips / Katie Sluiter -- Recovering my stranger-self / Jennifer Bullis -- Fear of falling / Dawn S. Davies -- Light in the midst of darkness / Michelle Stephens -- The breast of me / Suzanne Barston -- The savage song of my birthright blues / Estelle Erasmus -- My face in the darkness / Denise Emanuel Clemen -- We come looking for hope / Alexandra Rosas -- No stranger / Nina Gaby -- Never, now, and always / Karen Lewis -- The day I am not OK / Jenny Kanevsky -- Making tea with pressed leaves / Melissa Uchiyama -- My personal ocean of depression / Laura Miller Arrowsmith -- Breathe / Alexa Bigwarfe -- Depression is a numbers game / Kim Simon -- Recognizing the darkness / Lea Grover -- My longest winter / Allie Smith -- My many mothers / Becky Castle Miller -- Hanging on by a thread / Susan Goldberg -- Cranes / Laura Haugen -- Shattered and whole : embracing ambivalence / Sarah Rudell Beach -- Q&A with Jessica Zucker, PhD.