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I’m not a natural mum, I am the least maternal person on the planet. So for me motherhood has been a struggle right from the moment I had a positive pregnancy test. I didn’t enjoy being pregnant, wasn’t poorly at all – my pregnancy and labour were textbook perfect. I just couldn’t wait for it [...]
I was saddened to read today about Felicia Boots mum to 2 children aged 14 months and a mere 10 week old baby, both children were found dead at home. The Sun newspaper featured the picture of both mother and father who resembled any other happy couple. It is believed that the two young children were [...]
The thought of suffering from postnatal depression may be the reason many women are reluctant to have further children or become worried when they do have subsequent pregnancies. I personally feared postnatal depression appearing again. I was correct to do so. The fear and worry can in itself cause a mother to become anxious, my advice [...]
Postnatal depression came into my life and changed the way felt towards my baby, in time I did get help and just when things seemed to be improving I stopped taking my antidepressants and the depression caught me and I fell into a trap. Postnatal Depression;I stopped taking my antidepressants I had my [...]
Postnatal depression didn’t exist as far as my partner was concerned, I am so thankful that I never listened to him and I took the antidepressants that were prescribed to me, as they not only made me a happier person, they made me a better mother to my baby. My Postnatal Depression Story [...]
Postnatal depressionstruck when my youngest son was 2 months of age, I would cry when the kids where in bed. I didn’t want to play with my eldest child, even after all that I did still bond with my children and I still breastfed my youngest child till he was 4 months off age. Some people may [...]
“Postnatal depression did not just screw up my life; it took my children away from me.” I was 20 years old and a single mum of two gorgeous kids, my toddler had a bad accident at a friend’s house when my little girl was only 4 days old. I already had suffered from the baby blues [...]
I hated my daughter, didn’t want anything to do with her. I resented my baby and wished I had never had her. Postnatal depression was as far from my mind as anything else when I found out I was pregnant.I had wanted to join the army for a long time, I did just that. Of course [...]
Postnatal depression ruined any chances of me being a happy new mum. It’s a time I don’t like to look back on. All I know is that I was in a very dark place. I remember the first few days after having my daughter the baby blues kicked in, but they never went away. Being a first [...]
Postnatal depression struck after a stressful, argumentative pregnancy along with not being able to enjoy my pregnancy. I suffered a late miscarriage at 19 weeks, just two years before the pregnancy. I knew this pregnancy was here to stay, I could feel it. I also knew what sex it was. I started to buy. All I was told was [...]
I would hurt myself when I was alone, sitting up all night thinking of ways to kill myself, believing that my mum would be able to do a better job of bringing up my little boy than I could. Postnatal depression wasn’t something I had even heard of. I was 15, and in my last year of [...]
Depression was nothing new to me, I had experienced depression during pregnancy, but I never spoke out about it, I put it down to the hormones and my moods during pregnancy became unbearable. My daughter’s father had raped me. I left my abuser and suffered a nervous breakdown due to the trauma of past events. My [...]
I have had Postnatal Depressionwith my 2 eldest children, with my first the PND struck pretty much straight away because she was born prematurely and although she wasn’t ill I blamed myself that my body wasn’t strong enough to carry her to full term. With baby number 2 it was when my hubby went back to [...]
Postnatal depressionstruck when Auron was born pretty much, he got placed onto my chest and I felt nothing. I just said ”Aw it’s a baby” and then when my partner left the hospital that night I remember just lying there wishing time would go quicker so I didn’t have to be alone with him. We [...]
My own experience with postnatal depression started when I was in hospital, the night I gave birth my daughter. I was already suffering with depression before I had her. My daughter’s father had raped me. I left my abuser and suffered a nervous breakdown due to the trauma of past events. My mum was there all [...]
Treating postnatal depression is relatively straight forward but before anything can be done to help a mum suffering; she firstly has to admit that there is something wrong and this can take time. It is extremely difficult to admit that you are finding things difficult, the fear of judgement and the belief that your baby will be [...]
Postnatal depression first struck when my baby was 2 weeks old, I did not know it was this at the time and just got on with how I felt, I felt emotional numbness. I hated my child. I hated getting up in the nights to feed her. Struggling to wake up in the [...]
Postnatal depression talk always brings with it a sense of fear yet understanding, I remember it so well and still feel my own guilt creep back in at times. It also reminds me that it can be fought and with the correct support can be beaten. Just as this mum found, she gained the strength [...]
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