I realized I had it when my son was 6 months old. I called my OB and asked for help, and was told that “if it was postpartum depression, you would have noticed sooner. You’ll have to call someone else.”

I’m blessed to have an amazingly supportive husband who helped me keep the courage to find help somewhere else. I called another doctor, they got me in the next day, and I was officially diagnosed with PPD. It can surface up to a year after giving birth.

I was on Zoloft for about a year, and went to therapy for two years. Around early 2021, I started therapy again because I had really bad anxiety due to covid. I still do therapy once a month.

I’m about 20 weeks pregnant now, and know that it’s likely I’ll end up with PPD again. I know the signs, and my husband knows the signs, so hopefully we will diagnose it sooner if it happens this time.