This is Jade. This is Carly. And this is Mommy's Tell All.

Hello there Jade. Hey Carly and hey everybody. Welcome to. Hello everybody. Mommy's Tell All. What is this episode? 10 I'm losing track. Is that right? I know I'm into this.

Are we? I feel like we graduated. We're cruising. This is like the time of graduations too. We're graduating as well. Makes me feel useful.

We'll go with that. No, no. We're not. But it's okay. We wanted to talk really quick too. I guess I'm just going to jump right into the topic for this episode.

Which is mental health. So the beginning of May was maternal mental health week. And we didn't get to talk about maternal mental health really on that week. But we do want to address it because it's obviously super important.

And I love that people are actually talking about it. And finally, yeah. And today we have a guest who is a maternal mental health psychiatrist who's here to talk with us.

And it's a pretty like I think it's a pretty casual conversation we have with her. It's not like a typical interview where she's giving us a lot of like educational information. But it's more just her talking to us as humans and as moms.

Kind of just telling us that what we feel is sometimes perfectly valid or most of the time perfectly valid because being a mom is super hard and it does affect.

It's the hardest thing ever. Yeah. And I mean, obviously it's the best thing ever. It is the best thing ever.

If we talk about reality, there are a lot of women out there facing challenges and struggles and even mental illness. That is a fact.

Well, and it affects every single aspect of your life. I mean, there's you know, there's not a room that you walk in that you don't.

You know, sometimes feel super overwhelmed whether it's at work or at home or at the grocery store or you know, with your friends. I mean, being a mom.

I mean, yeah, it's the best thing. But it makes you exhausted and it makes you feel tons of emotions that you've never felt before. And it makes you, I don't know, feel so.

You know, totally like a totally different person than you felt before. And sometimes that kid's incredibly overwhelming and you don't really know how to navigate that.

Especially that fourth trimester right after having a baby. Absolutely.

It's really that navigating through that. Especially I think. I mean, I know each time you have a baby, it's totally different. But as a first time mom, when you have no idea.

Exactly what you know, I do. Yeah. Yeah. But I do want to share. I found this article. And I want to just read something from it because I feel like this is really important to share.

But it says more than one in 10 women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or within the first year of having a baby.

And seven and 10 of those will hide or underplay the severity of their perinatal illness.

Says those aren't small statistics. There are lots and lots of women living with mental illnesses all around us. Even if you think you don't know a mom who has suffered from postnatal depression, anxiety, OCD, I bet you do.

I bet they're just one of those seven and 10 playing it down. And I definitely think that's so true because we often put ourselves last as moms.

It's like, where do I even start to talk about how I'm really feeling? And are my feelings bad? Are my feelings wrong? Does that make me a terrible mother?

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