Babies Are the Worst

A Memoir About Motherhood, PPD, & Beyond

By: Meagan Gordon Scheuerman

Narrated by: Meagan Gordon Scheuerman

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Having a baby is supposed to be one of the most magical things that can happen to a person. Or so they say...

Meagan Gordon Scheuerman was nearly a year into motherhood before she realized she had postpartum depression. Instead of thinking she was sick, she thought her vision of motherhood was a sham and a lie. She wasn’t entirely wrong. She was also in more trouble than she knew.

Babies Are the Worst explores the unexpected challenges that parenthood presents, with humor, hope, and a little help from her friends. This memoir is not just for women with PPD. This audiobook is for every person who is left wondering, “Am I crazy for thinking this is sometimes the worst?” You’re not the only one thinking it.

This audiobook is divided into three sections. The first, “My PPD Journey”, chronicles Meagan’s journey into motherhood, including the depression that snuck up on her and knocked her sideways. Having never experienced mental illness until PPD, she didn’t recognize the symptoms and hid her new reality from everyone around her until she sought help.

Part two, “On Miscarriage & Fertility”, discusses being well enough to try for another child, along with the struggles that followed.

Part three, “Not Alone”, includes interviews and first-person accounts from other mothers who each experienced postpartum issues for differing reasons, none of which include clinical depression.

©2018 Meagan Gordon Scheuerman (P)2022 Meagan Gordon Scheuerman

Critic reviews

"Self-help meets chick-lit. Scheuerman's story shines in her remarkably raw and real depiction of postpartum depression." (Abigail Levrini, PhD, author of Succeeding with Adult ADHD and ADHD Coaching: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals)

Read this book

Whether you’re a new parent struggling to understand your new world, or you’re an expecting parent who really doesn’t know what to expect, or you’re an experienced parent whose babies are grown - you need to read this book. I became a mom nearly 10 years ago and was moved to tears several times remembering what that felt like and wanting so badly to go back in time and give myself more tools. But listening to Meagan tell her story healed me from wounds I didn’t know we’re still there.

I’m also so glad that I waited for the audiobook. Her performance is charming and warm and made me want to circle around the neighborhood just a couple more times because I wasn’t ready to turn it off.

A must read for Moms, Partners & all who love them

This book is excellent. I had read it when it came out, and listening to it now 3...4(?) years later as an audiobook I remembered why I had gifted it to so many new Mamas. Meagan tells her story with honesty, authenticity, humor, and humbleness. She truly bared her soul and in doing so helps you look at your own journey into motherhood honestly as well. Authenticity does that, empowers others to be authentic as well. Thank you, Meagan, for telling your story so we can all tell ours.

Such an important story!

This is the one and only book I’ve read on postpartum depression. As in, I haven’t seen any others out there. So thank you Meagan and all the others who shared their stories and for normalizing this experience. It took me years to open up and share my own journey. Stories like Meagan’s are sure to inspire others to share theirs too.

Wow! This book will help so many people! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This book should be listened to every future/ current parent. Actually. Everybody should listen to this book!

Meagan does such a beautiful job describing the raw and real emotions of postpartum.

This book had me (and my husband) in tears because we could relate to so many details! Listening to it was almost like therapy, hearing that we were not alone in a lot of what we went through.

Meagan made a still somewhat taboo subject, easy to listen to, entertaining and reflective and the changes in her voice during different characters and singing was an added bonus!

LOVED the resources and reflective questions at the end.

A Must-Read

This is the truest depiction of what those early days of motherhood are REALLY like. Meagan nails it- from that guilty feeling that you’re never enough, to the stupid stuff well-meaning people tell you to do and eat and say, to the grief you feel over the loss of your old life. She tackles it all while still being funny and hopeful. I wish I had read this when my kids were babies, but it was still so wonderful to read it now that they’re 6 and 8. Definitely a must-read for all parents and grandparents, but important for all adults.