In choosing a startup of the year (today's topic on Best of 2009 Blog Challenge), I thought I'd direct you to my friend Whitney's new website, Coconut Girl.
Whitney's mission is to help moms who are struggling with postpartum depression. Or just struggling with the ongoing challenge of being a parent, especially to a new baby.
Whitney was in my group of friends in Charlottesville, five or six women who all had our first babies within several months of each other, and muddled through those initial months together, lugging our babes around in bucket carseats, meeting at the coffeeshop or library or park, bleary-eyed and sometimes on the verge of breakdown.
I didn't realize at the time the extent of what Whitney was going through. I'm sure she didn't know that I was dealing with my own form of melancholy. (Not quite postpartum depression; that would come later, after my second son was born.)
But the point is, I think postpartum depression is still something that's really hard to talk about, and that most women suffer through alone.
So, thanks to Whitney for her lovely site, and for trying to make the journey a little less lonely.
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