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I Didn’t Love My Baby
I didn't love my baby. I didn't even know what love should feel like. I just knew that I didn't feel it. I felt detached, and I felt alien. I felt I was playing a role...
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Now You Are One
Now you are one, I am suddenly overwhelmed with so many emotions that I thought had mellowed into the back of my mind; because my darling boy your arrival heralded my mental unravelling.
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Circling the Drain: Being a New Mum
New motherhood is wonderful in so very many ways. But it is also shit. And it is important to acknowledge that...
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Prenatal Depression on the Downlow
It is only now, with reflection, that I understand why it all seemed to unravel so quickly: I had suffered from pre-natal depression but I just hadn’t realised it.
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Mental Health, Pregnancy and Motherhood
Not everyone blooms in pregnancy, and takes to motherhood like a duck to water. Hannah struggled with both and shares ten pieces of wisdom from her experience.
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Melancholy Musings of a New Mum
I'm not the newly-wed who expected the path to motherhood to be simple. I'm not the wife who thought a baby would make it all come right again.