Moving Through Postpartum Depression
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Caitlin is joined by Becky Vieira, the hilarious woman behind @wittyotter and author of Enough About the Baby. Becky shares her scary journey through postpartum depression and how she found support. Join in as they discuss mental health, anxiety, rage, boredom, loneliness, and the woes of breastfeeding. She reminds listeners that putting our needs first isn’t selfish and that the whole motherhood martyrdom thing is on the outs. They laugh and cry and help us all breathe a collective sigh of relief.
Disclaimer: This episode contains conversations about depression and suicide. Take care of yourself. It's okay if you want to skip today's episode.
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PPD support:
Karen Kleiman @postpartumstress
Postpartum Support International
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| 0:00.0 | Were you self-aware enough to know, like, this is postpartum depression? |
| 0:05.4 | I knew something was wrong, you know, and they give you this little brochure in the hospital. |
| 0:09.9 | And, you know, do you want to talk to someone? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, no, I just, I want to sleep. |
| 0:14.1 | But I did look at kind of the brochure and look things up. |
| 0:16.8 | And I thought, I think this is just sleep deprivation. |
| 0:19.7 | A lot of PPD symptoms can mimic |
| 0:22.5 | sleep deprivation. And so again, it was also just my brain wouldn't let me give myself any |
| 0:29.8 | out other than this is your fault. You're a terrible mom. |
| 0:37.1 | Welcome to big time adulting the podcast. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm your host, Caitlin Murray. |
| 0:41.9 | Buckle up and get ready to take it deep on life, relationships, |
| 0:45.7 | parenthood, and everything in between. |
| 0:48.1 | Join in with me to feel deeply, provoke your inner spirit, |
| 0:52.4 | and laugh or cry because we all know it's a pretty fine line. |
| 0:59.4 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the big time adulting podcast. Thanks for being here. Today's |
| 1:04.7 | episode is with a Instagram friend of mine that I have had like an online relationship with as fucking weird as that sounds to hear to me even still. |
| 1:16.7 | It's true. |
| 1:17.9 | A lot of us mom accounts become friendly with each other because we're doing similar stuff. |
| 1:24.3 | And so today I have Becky Vieira of the account, Whitty Otter, very popular Instagram account, |
| 1:30.2 | plus she's on Twitter. She is shifting the way that women speak about motherhood. Becky is one of the |
| 1:36.6 | most honest, really raw, but also super funny accounts out there, I would say. She writes also for Baby Center, Scary Mommy. |
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