Real Stories About Postpartum Mental Health: Voices 74 With Emily Roark And Kia Hammond

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Between the raging hormones, sleep deprivation, and overstimulation that occurs on the daily, it’s no wonder most moms feel a little “off” for a few weeks after delivery. But how do we know when the baby blues develop into something more? In this episode, Sarah chats with contributors Emily Roark and Kia Hammond, who share their personal postpartum mental health journeys, including how they recognized signs of postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety, when and how they got help, and which coping strategies worked best. We also get into preparing for mental health support during subsequent pregnancies, how the COVID upended mitigation strategies for pandemic babies, and more. We hope you’ll join us for this important conversation.

LINKS MENTIONED:

If you’re struggling, you can speak to someone right now about how you’re feeling by reaching out to Postpartum Support International’s HelpLine at 1-800-944-4773. If you ever feel like you might harm yourself or your baby, text HOME to the National Crisis Text Line at 741741 for immediate support. You can also find a trained provider on their website here.

Sarah interviewed Kate Rope in Voices 26 to talk about her journey through postpartum anxiety, and how moms can support each other during new motherhood.
Kate Rope wrote Strong as a Mother: How to Be Happy, Healthy and (Most Importantly) Sane From Pregnancy to Parenthood: The Only Guide to Taking Care of YOU! (affiliate link), a book we highly recommend
Kate Rope also wrote an article with more about Why new moms have scary thoughts about their babies
Kia and Emily were also featured in our episodes Pandemic Babies And The Moms Who Love Them, Part 1 and Part 2.
Meagan interviewed Monique Dozier in Black Motherhood & Mental Health: Voices 69
You can hear more from Kia in a conversation with Meagan about Preparing Kids (Of All Ages) For A New Baby: Voices 67
Follow @kiamhammond and @Emilyeroark on Instagram
Emily found the book The Postnatal Depletion Cure (affiliate link) by Oscar Serrallach very helpful throughout her postpartum journey
Emily and Kia recommend the following instagram accounts @biglittlefeelings, @pedsdoctalk, @psychedmommy, and @happyasamother.
Kia recommends the book Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers (affiliate link)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the Mom Hour. Hey everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour
0:25.6	Voices, a special series on the Mom Hour showcasing diverse voices from across
0:30.4	the motherhood community. I'm Sarah Powers and today I am joined by two
0:34.8	incredible moms from our contributor team Emily Rork and Kia Hammond. Hello
0:40.0	friends. Hi. Hi. I'm so glad to have you both here with me today and kind of
0:45.6	guest co-host chairs. I wish we were sitting around a real table with real
0:49.8	coffee, but well listeners have heard you both on the show before most
0:53.9	recently in our pandemic baby series. You both shared kind of what it was
0:58.3	like going through pregnancy and the postpartum period during the really
1:01.9	intense part of the pandemic. But for those who don't know you, I would love for
1:06.6	you both to introduce yourselves. Just tell us a little bit about you, your family,
1:10.2	where you live, how old your kids are, all of that. I'm Emily. I live in a
1:14.9	suburb of Indianapolis with my husband and three kids. My kids are six, four,
1:20.0	and I have a pandemic baby who will be two next week. Hi. I'm Kia. I live in
1:25.6	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with my husband and our four children. They are,
1:30.3	let's see, 13 for soon to be five, two, and the baby just turned five months old.
1:36.5	Oh my goodness. Well, today's episode is about postpartum mental health,
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