Your kids will break your heart. A thousand times.
Every 8 Moms, one would develops a Postpartum Mood Disorder. (PMD)
It is believed that 80% of that went undiagnosed. May be because mom doesn’t she has such a disorder. But you know what, one mom had committed suicide from that disorder.
Don’t take it lightly. In malay word, it’s call Gila Meroyan. So, dealing with your kids is as stress as normal 9-to-5 work. Yes. I could feel the heat when I babysit my two children. Plus, my baby girl is so sensitive and fussy. She gives some additional stress to me.
Tell me, who can really stand with your own baby if she wants to be hugged all the time, when you have daily chores needs to be done? You can do cooking, laundry, and cleaning with one hand, and holding your baby with the other – once in a while. But everyday? Meh.
If you see your couple needs to relax from that pressure, the best thing you can do is take over his or her task, and tell your couple to take a break.
Even Tom Cruise’s diatribe on national television against antidepressants and Shields’s use of them wound up doing a lot of good by bringing the postpartum-depression discussion into America’s living rooms, says Birdie Gunyon Meyer, R.N., the president of Postpartum Support International (PSI), a nonprofit organization that promotes awareness, prevention, and treatment of mental health issues related to childbirth
2 Responses to 1 in Every 8 Moms Has Postpartum Mood Disorder
transformed housewife January 22, 2011
I experienced the Post ParTum Mood Disorder after I delivered my second daughter in NZ. I was on my one to juggle household chores and take care of two young daughters (age 2+ and newborn baby at that time). It was also bcs I had to be a temporary housewife in a foreign land.
tabuxander January 22, 2011
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us. Hope you well in exploring motherhood adventure..