SallyAnn Kelly: New mums' mental health matters too
It is perhaps more probable that new mothers will struggle to do their very best while coping with a bewildering, exhausting torrent of strange emotions, new responsibilities and fresh worries. Any mothers claiming to be in complete control during these life-changing months are possibly not being entirely truthful with themselves or their families.
It should be a happy time but, for many women, pregnancy and childbirth can be debilitating, anxious and impact on their mental health. That impact could be a sudden and catastrophic postpartum psychosis or it could happen slowly, as they withdraw, slipping into isolation, as they struggle to cope with stress and depression, alone and in silence.
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