Get To Know Postpartum Depression

Why more and more Indian women are opening up about Postpartum Depression.

Transcript

00:30We call it the fourth trimester, and after this, you know, a woman is stronger and able

00:42to go out into the world, but the deal is, and this isn't talked about either, that the

00:47way a woman takes care of herself postpartum can directly affect the way she moves through

00:54menopause.

01:12It wasn't enjoyable for me, the baby stage, and I didn't feel I could say that because

01:19what kind of a woman doesn't enjoy having a baby?

01:22There's so much pressure for new moms.

01:23I mean, we feel the pressure to be a perfect parent.

01:26We feel the pressure to, you know, get our pre-baby bodies back really quickly.

01:43I'm a mother of two daughters, and after the birth of my first daughter, I suffered acutely

01:48from postpartum depression, and the biggest tragedy of all of this was that I did not

01:54know that I had postpartum depression.

01:58I did know that I wanted to die.

02:02I did know that I was incapable of holding or looking at or kissing or smelling or singing

02:10to my perfect, tiny, little baby.

02:14I just couldn't fathom that I would have something called postpartum depression.

02:34Pressure that we put on women when they enter motherhood to be having the perfect experience,

02:38and no one has the perfect experience, but often that's not something you realize until

02:41you're right in the teeth of it yourself.

02:44So I suppose, I mean, it's a huge ask, but changing the way that we talk about motherhood

02:48generally and making it clear that this is, as with anything in life, it's an imperfect

02:53experience and that's fine and it's something that can be embraced and enjoyed, if possible.