Don’t Let Your Postpartum Anxiety Push Your Partner Out Of Their Parenting Role

If ever there was a poster child for postpartum anxiety, it was me.

That first night home with our newborn, my brain felt like a beehive. Doubt and fear buzzed inside my head as our baby boy’s screams grew louder and louder. It was 3:30 a.m., and the night had been a disaster. I remember standing over that crib, hands gripping the wooden bars, certain that we would never survive.