This is Postpartum: Free yourself from the perfect mother conspiracy

by Tilda Timmers

Overview

What if, amidst the congratulations cards and presents everyone keeps sending, you're actually constantly overwhelmed and anxious? What if you're beating yourself up for not being as happy as you think new mothers should be? It's OK. Motherhood is like the hardest exam in the world, and you haven't even been allowed to prepare for it. This book is a friendly, fuss free and compassionate guide for the moments when you're tearing your hair out and wondering if you're all alone. You're not. There is no right way to be a perfect mother, but a million ways to be a good one.

Following World Maternal Mental Health Day, This is Postpartum launches June 16, 2020. It is a book for women in their thirties or forties who are mothers. Some may be sick of the didactic parenting books foisted on them by well-meaning in-laws. They're all likely to have a lot on their mind, be incredibly busy and be feeling quite isolated. Prescriptive and simple, the book is filled with lots of stories ,tips, and humor. At a time when the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic has changed the way we think about supporting ourselves and others, now more than ever, women who are preparing to birth a child into the world are needing emotional strength and support. There's plenty of pregnancy and postpartum depression books out there, but Tilda's book is unique in how it weaves gentleness and a friendly tone throughout difficult topics that ultimately make it an uplifting read. This is Postpartum is part-story and part-toolkit. It is a light for mothers finding themselves in a darker place than they may have expected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789948354420
Publisher:	The Dreamwork Collective LLC
Publication date:	05/27/2020
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Netherlands-based Tilda Timmers is a therapist specialising in postpartum depression. She works with parents who are not on cloud nine after giving birth, who might be feeling overwhelmed, ashamed, depressed, and anything in between. She gives them their life back, introducing them to tools they need to feel more confident, happier and above all: balanced in their new role as a parent. Tilda writes from the heart having suffered from postpartum depression with her first child.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Two New Mothers, Two Different Realities

Realizing Things Aren't Quite Right

Breaking the Silence

Breast or Bottle: Your Call

How to Stop the Negative Spiral

When Sleep Deprivation Has Taken Over Your Life

Start Moving and Get Outdoors

The Things Nobody Tells You

Chat Openly and Honestly with Other Mothers

Taking Your Child to Day Care

The Importance of Self-Care

How Your Relationships Can Change

Let's Talk about Sex

Travelling: Babies Are Super Portable

Round Two?