No one wants to talk about the pregnancy bouts of depression. Or the bouts that turn into seemingly constant companions. The vulnerability, the self loathing when you're trying, but you think "I thought I knew what I wanted." When you're sick and nothing feels right and you just don't feel like yourself. When your body is changing and you look weird. When you would do anything for your baby, would protect it with your life but you can't seem to feel that "spark", that connection that you're "supposed" to feel with your unborn baby, confused and scared if it's going to last PP. The shame and sadness and frustration. No one wants to talk about it because if you feel this way you're "a bad mom".

We need to be heard without feeling judged. We need to be open. We need to talk about it.