Looking back, it was such a blur, day in and day out….

After delivering both of my baby girls, I remember being on autopilot. Wake up, feed, change diapers, sooth baby, snuggle, change diapers, take millions of pictures, and do it all over again the next day. Someone once told me that the days drag on but the months fly by. A perfect explanation!

I’ll start with the postpartum experi

You’re tired, irritable, angry, sad.

You’re feeling emotions that probably don’t feel like your own. Or maybe you know your emotions, but have no idea why you’re feeling them. Maybe you’re reacting to situations and people in ways you never have before?

I get it. I’ve been there. I have snapped at my husband and my daughter. I have been angry and depressed for reasons that were unknown.

Welcome to IOME!

It is becoming more clear that women are not getting the self-care they need and deserve. Approximately 12 million women in the US experience clinical depression each year. More notably, from 2005 to 2015, depression rates had risen from 6.6 percent to 7.3 percent.Though a few percentage points might not seem like a big deal, one percent accounts of millions of people, b