Postpartum Quotes

• The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

  Brooke Shields

  Perspective, Priorities, Scary

  "Battle to Replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Begins". "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Baby, Panic, Parenthood

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

  Marie Osmond

  Baby, Hurt, Psychosis

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• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• [Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

  June Diane Raphael

  Real, Family And Friends, Needs

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• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

  Ariel Gore

  Support, Community, Understanding

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• One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

  June Diane Raphael

  Meaningful, Would Be, Agendas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.

  Jose Gonzalez

  People, Physicians, Sides

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• I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.

  Alyssa Milano

  Mom, Yoga, Class

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• For me, I was the most vulnerable and needed the most in my postpartum experience and got the least. It was just kind of a drop-off. That would be my focus - on the woman, afterwards.

  June Diane Raphael

  Focus, Would Be, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Workout, Kindness, Kids

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• I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Children, Two, House

  "Work And Babies: Women Still Have To Pick Their Poison (But Men Are Evolving!)" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?

  Doris Grumbach

  Depression, Baby, Book

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Extra Innings: A Memoir”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

  Peter Eisenman

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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