by Our Peachy Team | Nov 15, 2016 | Personal stories
Hi I’m Bel, I am a mother of 5 earth babies and my very own angel boy. My experience with depression and anxiety started with my 5th pregnancy with my son Xavier. We found out at 19 weeks gestation that he only had a 10% chance of living. We chose to give him...
by Our Peachy Team | Nov 15, 2016 | Personal stories
I experienced PND 4 months after the birth of my baby. I felt very isolated and that nobody else felt like me. It was only when I confided in a friend that she too said she was going through the same thing. After 2 years of professional help and medication the fog...
by Our Peachy Team | Nov 15, 2016 | Personal stories
I’m Stacee. A 32yr old Mum of 3. When I was little, I wanted to grow up to be a Mum. When I was pregnant with my first, I remember saying to my Dad that I finally felt like I was doing what I was born to do. The reality was so very different. I had no idea what...
by Our Peachy Team | Sep 12, 2016 | Personal stories
So, on the weekend I went and did one of my most favourite things in the world – let people play with my hair! But for years, I avoided going to the hairdresser, it would literally fill me with dread and fear and I avoided the place like it was a cockroach...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2016 | Personal stories
Author: Jen McCall As I looked at the faces of the other people in room, I was overwhelmed with gratitude. For the past few years these faces and many others had been so integral in my life, knowing I would soon be leaving them filled me with bittersweet sadness, my...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2015 | Personal stories
Author: Emmay Day (for PNDA Awareness Week) This is the face of postnatal depression and anxiety. Well, one of them. It’s the face of crippling self-doubt, relentless self-hatred. It’s the face of throbbing guilt and constant, constant failure. I know, because it’s...
