Photo Shoots

I have a few photo sessions completed for the book. It has been such a great experience and all the women and their families are amazing.  You would never know they ever suffered from Postpartum because the love they have for their families and the love their families have for them is incredible. 

This project has already been so satisfying on so many levels.  

I look forward to doing more sessions.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes are my trigger and I am very very aware of it.  Once the earth starts to shake I get numb all over and my adrenaline rapidly starts increasing and the light switch in my body is turned on.

Aside from being tired and overwhelmed when my daughter was 4 months old, my family had all left town to go home from the Baptism and then the earth shook.  Granted I was sad that everyone left but I would have gotten passed it had that quake not have hit.

I am doing better then I was last year.  Is it that I am a bit more rested?  I didn't have all of the other situations going on?  Is it medicine?  I think its all of them.

I am uneasy about having 2 quakes in 3 days but I hope that its a long while before we feel another one.

To all Mothers Near and Far,

I would like to wish you all a very Happy Mothers Day!  It's an amazing thing and you are all amazing women.

Cynthia

Catch My Interview

In my quest to find brave women to share their stories for my book project I have come across some incredible women.  One woman, Lauren Hale, started her blog Sharing the Journey: Life After Postpartum Depression to deal with her unexpected third pregnancy.  It is now a informative site to keep other women from suffering alone.  It is on its 2nd  year and has gone from 10,000 visitors on it's first birthday to now having 44,000.

Lauren is going to share her story with me and in the interim asked if she could interview me for her blog.  That interview will be posted tomorrow, May 7th at 5am est at: 

http://unexpectedblessing.wordpress.com/

 The address is her website which you should check out anyway.  Thank you for the support.

What a day!!  My husband has taken my little girl out for 5 hours and I finally get to organize all of my emails, respond to most, make my excel spreed sheet and update my blog.

I want to thank everyone for all of the submissions so far.  I am still collecting stories so if you or someone you know would like to submit please send them my way.

I hope that I will be able to pull this all together but I truly am getting nervous. These few hours are precious and I need to get back to work however I wanted to let you all know that I am still pushing forward.  There is still movement.

Contact Information

A few people have inquired about how to contact me.  I myself just found out that if you go to the right of the blog and under my profile it says "View my complete profile" it will take you to a new window.  On the left side of that window it says Contact and then email.  Click email and it will set you up.

Otherwise to make it easier, my email is fleurphoto@aol.com.

Thank you.

Cynthia

Spreading the Word

I am excited to say that the word has started to spread.  Slowly but its spreading and I need your help.  Please share this blog, my story or the want for brave women to share their stories of postpartum depression for my project.

I have to give big Props to Stephanie M. for using her network of resources to help spread the word.

I have received some correspondence and have to say that I am more inspired to do this then ever.  Thank you to all or have submitted so far.

Through all of this I have also read many blogs and websites and am so thrilled that so many people are on the crusade to broaden the awareness and offer support for women.  Had I only knew how much their was out their 10 months ago.  Now I know and will pass on any information I have to others in the future.

The one thing I still am stuck on is the idea of self publishing.  I have gotten many avenues to explore but having never done this before I feel like I am at a crossroads.  I am still researching all of the possibilities and believe it will all work out in the end.  However, if you have any insights or experiences on self publishing please let me know.

Spread the word.  PPD is real and we need make it prominent in the eyes of everyone so that sufferers have many resources to get help and others don't ignore that it exists.