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Maternity: postpartum depression, such a widespread unknown

2021-04-07T12:58:47.711Z


No, postpartum depression is not a “baby blues”. According to studies, between 10 and 30% of women who have just given birth are still


"Postpartum depression is experiencing the most absolute feeling of abandonment."

This is what Sandra, in her thirties, experienced after the birth of her little Angèle, now 2 years old.

“I have never felt so alone as after my first childbirth.

The world around you is rejoicing and I was giving up, but all I wanted to do was go back to my mother and lock myself in my teenage room.

I wanted to be taken care of, ”she says.

I have decided to be a mother, however, but no one is warning you of the psychic impact it can have.

I even thought that my daughter would be better off without me ”.

The period after childbirth, or postpartum, is often a dive into the unknown.

And for some, between 10 and 30% depending on the studies, a descent into depression.

It is this "after", insufficiently taken into account by health professionals, that the midwife Anna Roy highlights in her book which comes out this Wednesday: "The dreamed life of the post-partum" (with the collaboration of Caroline Michel, published by Larousse).

"Women are often the only ones to manage everything"

“The overwhelming majority of depressions are preventable,” slices the author, also a columnist on the show

La Maison des Maternelles

.

We must take care of women who have just given birth.

They went through a crazy thing.

There is only for the baby, but they?

It is to them that we should offer the birth gift: massage, hours of nanny or prepared meals ... But not 35 comforters.

»Taking into account the well-being of the mother, it seems simple!

However, "we take things backwards," says Anna Roy.

“A mother who is well supported, surrounded, does not fall into depression and a happy mother is a happy baby.

However, what I see is that women are often the only ones to manage everything and that the prevention component is not done in France.

Diaper suites, who cares.

We focus on childbirth, much more spectacular, when it all really begins when we take our cozy and come home.

"

I was on the verge of shaking Leo last night.

Two fingers away.


And I just want to jump off a bridge for almost doing that.

I am exhausted.

I'm not well.

No one sees it.

- Imperfect Mom (@MamanSeRaconte) April 5, 2021

“I felt like a monster of selfishness when I asked my mom if she could babysit my 5 month old son for a week.

Time for a relaxing trip with dad.

She said

yes

straight away, but I know my mother-in-law didn't understand it:

He goes to a nursery, you have a cleaning lady and my son helps you

.

These sentences are extremely guilty, recalls Imane, 42 years old.

When my partner returned to work after the few days of paternity leave, I felt like I was alone with a stranger: my baby.

I collapsed.

I no longer knew who I was.

I spent the first nine months crying.

The pediatrician looked at me strangely when I tried to tackle the problem and, around me, it was just

you doing a baby blues

.

Much of my postpartum depression was caused by this.

- 💖THE PINK HAIRED MOM💖 (@tatatadamour) April 1, 2021

“Baby blues should not be confused with postpartum depression.

The first is a physiological process that is not pathological.

It is temporary and intervenes in the first days.

He just says

I have the mood changing

.

It is almost unavoidable and I would even say desirable.

A laughing woman, ready to go back to work after leaving maternity as if nothing had happened, is more worrying, ”says Anna Roy.

And to the midwife to remind that “the bond of attachment with the baby does not happen overnight, and that's normal!

This baby still comes back to everything in his life.

However, if a feeling of sadness, exhaustion, anxiety or hyperactivity that prevents sleep persists beyond a fortnight, it is necessary to consult ”.

More than 100,000 mothers in great distress

According to the report of the commission of the first 1000 days, established by the Ministry of Health in September 2020, and cited in the book, the frequency peaks of postnatal maternal depression occur at 2-4 months and then at 6 months.

This disorder can also occur during pregnancy.

"Thus, we can estimate that in France more than 100,000 women are in great distress during the year following the birth of their child, and only half of them find whom to contact", notes the document.

However, this largely underdiagnosed depression can sometimes lead to cases of abuse.

Neither Sandra nor Imane were taken care of.

“I was the one who made the diagnosis.

I couldn't stand my daughter's tears any longer, I wasn't relieved enough by her father and not at all supported by the doctors, ”Judge Sandra.

[THREAD] This is it my sleeping baby.

I'm reopening Twitter after weeks of absence because I made the decision to tell you my story.

This thread will be long, I will shake with every emotional tweet but if it can help women then it will be worth talking about.

- Margaux Duguet (@MargauxDuguet) January 27, 2021

On social networks, more and more of them are talking about this not always rosy “after”.

" It was time !

It's great that the voice of women is also released on this, ”analyzes Anna Roy who is campaigning for a minimum maternity leave of 6 months for all.

And her, how does she manage to prevent the women she accompanies from falling into this spiral?

"I talk to them, and I brief everyone: the companions, on the distribution of tasks in particular, the grandparents ... I don't hesitate to tell a dad

if you go back to work now, I get your wife back in two days with depression

.

They trust me "

Source: leparis

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