Perinatal Depression Affects One in Seven Women, Including Me [northcarolinahealthnews.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 1/22/2012:00 PM

By Yen Duong, North Carolina Health News, January 17, 2020

I knew going into my third pregnancy that it’s not a walk in the park: around two-thirds of pregnant women experience morning sickness, almost everyone experiences fatigue from building a placenta, the immune system changes, and sleep problems arise.

But I never expected that it would be this bad.

For months, I vomited four to six times a day, turned my nose away at almost all foods, couldn’t sleep at night for endless replays of anxious scenarios with the baby, or with my two older kids, and sobbed over inane problems that completely overwhelmed me such as the smoke detector running out of batteries or oversalted pasta.

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