Did you suffer with Post-Natal Depression?
@vicky_lane4987 (980)
November 9, 2010 2:18pm CST
I was wondering if any other Mommy's on here suffered with PND. I suffered with it alittle when I had my 9 month old son. This was because of poor hospital care though. The hospital refussed to allow me to feed my son with a bottle. I did want to breast feed him but unfortunately my son just wouldn't take to it. So he was born on the thursday, and he didn't have anything to feed him until we were allowed home on the saturday. At this point my mother-in-law saw how much I was getting stressed and worked up at not being able to feed him myself, she simply took over and told us to give him a bottle. I have since made a complaint to the hospital about their poor care of myself and my son. They didn't help at all and my midwife wasn't at all helpful about my depression either. They simply ignored the fact and said I shouldn't have given him a bottle. This just made me feel worse as a first-time Mommy, as I felt I wasn't giving my son what I should be. It finally took my husband putting them in their place, and telling them that I was trying as much as I possibley could for them to finally understand what I was going through, and that they were just making it even worse. It got to the point where I would only want myself to look after my son and wouldn't let others much. But I slowly got over this and realised I wasn't neglecting my son by us not breastfeeding.
Are there any other Mommy's out there with a similar story? I know alot of Mommy's don't really like to talk about it, but I thought that possibley talking would help.
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
10 Nov 10
I have had two children. I ddidn't have any kind of post natal depression after having them. My heart goes out to any mothers who have had this experience in their lives.
@joey_matthews (8354)
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9 Nov 10
Nope.
I thought Kate did as she would shy away from holding Jake, I'm not sure if that was due to the memories of Chloe or the fact she did have post-natal depression. I know my mum agreed with me that she did, as originally at the start I had a hard time getting Kate to interact with him. Generally she would only really watch him/look she never really touched/hold him for long periods of time. It could could of also been due to the fact she was still getting over the birth so I really don't know for sure, I think there should be more support of midwifes in helping to spot this.
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@jazel_juan (15746)
• Philippines
21 Nov 10
i can say i did but it was not due to hospital care, the hospital i was in was so accomodating, from the midwife to the staff nurses and my obstetrician-gynecologist is also amazing, i had all 3 children with her.. i had my PND when i arrived home, i guess it was always the adjustment period which was hard. my husband and i often argue and the stress of staying awake at night plus no nanny at that time when my baby was born, which really made me depressed to the point that i was like crying always..but thank god i got through it..it was awful.
