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5 Steps to Managing Holiday Stress

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Managing holiday stress is critical, especially for busy moms. Here are some practical tips for how to manage stress and deal with holiday anxiety. Following these 5 steps will help you eliminate or at least reduce holiday stress. You'll learn about triggers: what they are, how to identify them, and how to cope with them in a healthy way. This post also explains decision fatigue and how to reduce it, as well as providing tips for simplifying the holidays and time management.

Stress has, sadly, become a normal part of our daily lives. Our fast-paced world celebrates increased productivity at the risk of our health and mental sanity, and Christmastime is a perfect example of that. I wish we didn’t even have to talk about this, but managing holiday stress needs to become a normal part of our Christmas planning.

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Molly’s Life With Anxiety After the NICU

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Raw Motherhood: Molly's Life With Anxiety After the NICU - Everybody's Fed, Nobody's Dead Blog

This story is a part of our Raw Motherhood series, a collection of true accounts from real moms. We hope these stories will help shed light on real issues, but we are not medical professionals and are not offering medical advice. If you are in need of immediate help or feel you could be a harm to yourself or others, please call 911.

My little peanut was born at 34 weeks on February 5th, 2017.

She was 3lbs, 11oz & 17in long, had 10 fingers and toes, and had a head full of dark hair. It was love at first sight.

Then we were separated, as she was taken to the NICU and I went to my recovery room. There were complications with my recovery and I had to go to the operating room for a D&C.

My daughter was born at 3:56 pm, but I didn’t get to see her again until almost midnight. [Read more…] about Molly’s Life With Anxiety After the NICU

Kaitlyn’s Struggle with Postpartum Anxiety and Perinatal OCD

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Kaitlyn's true story of mothering with postpartum anxiety and perinatal OCD is a must-read! If you're a mom who's struggling, you're not alone. Learn about postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. This is a story from the Raw Motherhood series. #rawmotherhood #anxiety #PMAD #mentalhealth #postpartum #OCD

This story is a part of our Raw Motherhood series, a collection of true accounts from real moms. We hope these stories will help shed light on real issues, but we are not medical professionals and are not offering medical advice. If you are in need of immediate help or feel you could be a harm to yourself or others, please call 911.

Postpartum anxiety hit me like a truck.

My twin boys were born 6 weeks prematurely and spent two weeks in the NICU. The time in the hospital gave me a bit of anxiety, but life was good after bringing my babies home. They slept four hours at a time and I began to relax more. [Read more…] about Kaitlyn’s Struggle with Postpartum Anxiety and Perinatal OCD