Recovery from PND- Beyond The Baby Blues

There’s an excellent introduction to perinatal anxiety and depression on the Bubhub website.  You can find it here. It’s beautifully written, very clear and concise, and it covers all the basic that all of us, YES all of us, need to know. And it’s written by Benison O’Reilly, co-author of Beyond The Baby Blues.  Benison [...]

Kerri-Anne Kennerley has always done her bit for mums and dads experiencing anxiety and depression before and after childbirth. Just recently she had Peter Overton, Angela Mollard and Danielle Miller on talking about their experiences. Then on Wednesday she gave Cathie and I a bit of time on the show to chat about the issue [...]

This is my gorgeous second son, known on this blog as Able. His birth was the most amazing, excruciating, miraculous experience – for both of us! He didn’t cry a lot as a baby, but I cried…..

I think I knew the brutal reality of having kids; that it’s joyous one moment and horrendous the next; and that’s been my experience. I love this quote, it’s on page 9 of our new book and every time I read it I want to cry and laugh. Our publisher asked Benison O’Reilly, Cathie Knox [...]

These few words say such a lot.  This piece of paper has been inside my purse for about 17 years now and whilst it looks tired and tattered, the sentiment is still gleaming bright.

This isn’t the best weekend for me, my Int’l Man of Mystery is flying off on Saturday night to Tunisia to see a man about an oilrig.  I wish he wasn’t. The timing is shocking.  It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow and our little twinnies turn five on Monday.  I was an acting single mum on these [...]

Have you hear of the Gidget Foundation’s DVD release ‘Behind The Mask?” This feature length documentary concerns perinatal anxiety and depression.  And guess what?  It’s the first of its kind in Australia. Unbelievable!! Anxiety and depression are so common around childbirth, both for men and for women, and yet there has not been a film [...]