Postpartum Depression

Have you perhaps experienced postpartum depression? You find yourself in a new role, where you suddenly have to navigate a world that looks completely different than before. Perhaps you feel well-equipped to be a parent, or perhaps you feel overwhelmed. Regardless, the arrival of your newborn child can trigger emotions and challenges you had not anticipated.

It may be that your birth was anything but the beautiful and happy experience you had hoped for. Perhaps you are now left with an unpleasant and unprocessed birth experience that affects both you and your relationship with your newborn child.

You might have imagined that meeting your child would be love at first sight, and that you would fully enjoy your maternity leave. But perhaps it doesn’t feel that way.

Perhaps you find that parenthood is completely different from what you had imagined, and that you have lost connection with both yourself and your partner in the process. You may feel that you are the problem, and you are ashamed of the feelings you are experiencing. Perhaps everything is just different and harder than you expected, which can be a source of grief.

Thoughts about parenthood can also awaken memories from your own childhood, and you may be unsure how to become the good parent you never knew yourself.

All these feelings are normal, and you are not alone. If you are experiencing postpartum depression, there are always ways to improve.

Postpartum depression and reactions affect both the birthing and non-birthing parent. And it is not uncommon for them to appear even before birth. The sooner you get help to process difficult emotions, the better. Both for yourself and for your child.

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