  | Book Details Title: Baby Ever After: Expanding Your Family After Postpartum Depression |
Book DescriptionReview Rebecca Fox Starr shares her intimate journey through severe postpartum depression related to childbearing and infertility, including voices from other moms when thinking about subsequent pregnancy. Her second book highlights the internal biological struggle of asking ‘maybe we can’ balanced with questions about risks associated with medication regimens, adoption and possible surrogacy. A brilliantly written and straightforward lens of her internal journey to survive through two pregnancies while finding a way toward healing and health. — Ginger Breedlove, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, March for Moms President, Author of “Nobody Told Me About That: The First Six Weeks”As a survivor and perinatal psychologist, I’m delighted that Rebecca has boldly broken new ground with Baby Every After. With beautiful detail, honesty, engaging scenarios and even humor, she sensitively raises the many valid options for families following postpartum depression, including surrogacy and choosing not to have another child. As a fellow advocate supporting whatever feels right for each survivor, I applaud Rebecca and her new book! — Shoshana S. Bennett, PhD, Author of books including “Postpartum Depression for Dummies”, DrShosh.comBaby Ever After, above all else, brings dark things into the light. Starr offers women insight into the calculated risks of growing a family after depression, but also extends grace-filled permission to acknowledge every feeling in the process. Using both research and raw personal reflection, Starr presents a compelling battle between desire and reality, logic and emotion—ultimately landing in a place where every reader can relate, that of surrender. — Ashlee Gadd, Founder of Coffee + CrumbsRebecca Fox Starr’s second book gives a brave and beautiful in-depth look at the decisions many women and their loved ones face regarding expanding their families after experiencing the emotional trauma of perinatal mood disorders. Her incredibly thoughtful and honest approach to the possibilities available to survivors invites readers to shine the light of knowledge on this historically off limits topic and to progress on their journey with tools other than fear and silence. — Eva M. Greenberg, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Reproductive Mental Health Read more Book Description After perinatal or postpartum depression, the decision to have another baby can be fraught with emotion. Rebecca Fox Starr movingly shares her story and those of others who have decided to carry, adopt, or not have another child and helps readers explore their own feelings about their own baby ever after. Read more About the Author Rebecca Fox Starr is an author, writer, blogger, wife, mom, and mental health advocate. She created her internationally-read blog, Mommy, Ever After, in 2010, and her first book, Beyond the Baby Blues: Anxiety and Depression During and After Pregnancy was released in early 2018. Rebecca writes candidly about her life as a mother, survivor, advocate, singer/songwriter, dance-partier and studded-shoe collector. Her story has been featured in The New York Times, HuffPost, on ABC News and other media around the world. Rebecca lives and writes with her husband, daughter, son and two dogs in the suburbs of Philadelphia. More about Rebecca can be found on her blog at www.MommyEverAfter.com and on social media outlets @rebeccafoxstarr Read more Customers Review:Rebecca Fox Starr aims to shatter the stigma around mental health and also give women (and their families) who have suffered, or are suffering from postpartum depression, hope in her newest book, Baby Ever After. If you’re a PPD survivor, the words within these pages will leave you feeling not just understood, but also heard. | |
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