On Pandemic Pregnancy and Postnatal Depression
Note- What follows is a pretty graphic description of my pregnancy, birth and its aftermath. Please don't read if you don't want to know about these things or if it will be upsetting to you... Another year, another blogpost. What started as a blog about school and teaching has turned into a platform where I very occasionally share my mental health ups and downs (mainly downs), this time my experiences of postnatal depression. I wanted children so very badly. I was (and still am) the kind of person who looks at babies and smiles like a idiot, trying to catch their eye. When my husband and I finally decided we were financially ready for a baby (we had been emotionally ready...or so we thought... for many years), the fact that it didn’t happen instantly drove me to despair. It takes the average couple up to a year of trying to conceive to get pregnant, it took us 3 months and I was a nightmare to live with through that time. I had to be a mum, I just had to be and it made me v...