Post-Natal Depression Reviews

After 7 months of being in denial after the birth of my daughter, i finally went to see the doctor who diagnosed me as having post natal depression. I probably like many other people did'nt really believe in depression as an illness and just thought that it was people feeling sorry for themselves and that they ought to pull themselves ...  Read the complete review

I have suffered from depression for the last 6 years and i am only 23 years old. I often wonder to myself if it is my fault i am like this and also if my life will ever be normal again. I really hate when people say that depression is nothing. They obviously have never exprienced anything like it. I have heard people saying that ...  Read the complete review

Post Natal Depression, or otherwise known as PND for short is a terrible thing for anybody to suffer. All people suffer this in different ways there is no common symptom to look for, as with depression everybody suffers it differently. Post Natal Depression is a depression women can suffer after having a baby. I think the majority of ...  Read the complete review

Hmmm this is a bit of a hard subject for me. I have had post natal depression with all three of my children. The worse thing is you want to snap out of it so you can enjoy your little baby but you cant. You cry for no reason or cry at anything. Everything becomes scary and the world becomes dangerous. I was terrified and still am of anything ...  Read the complete review

When my third child was born I had three children under 2.2 months! My first child had been conceived by IVF because for some unknown reason we had tried for 12 months with no joy. Luckily the first ivf worked and this was a huge relief as at £3000 a go, it was something we struggled to afford. My first pregnancy was not ...  Read the complete review

This is my story of how I coped and did not cope with postnatal depression. I was not diagnosed or admit it to myself at the time! When I fell pregnant, I was 21 and working full time nights. (38 hours a week) I left to have my baby and returned to work on nights when my baby was 3 months old. I was with my partner at the time and he ...  Read the complete review

I suffered from post natal depression following the traumatic birth of my daughter by emergency caesarian at 34 weeks. I had an undiagnosed grumbling appendix which burst sometime before 32 weeks gestation when I went into premature labour (told it was trapped wind!!!!). Just could not gain weight during the pregnancy but no one listened to my ...  Read the complete review

This is an article I wrote on PND. Sorry its long. After it, is my own story and montage I made about my PND. It has been used at conferences with midwives and health visitors. ~ About~ Post Natal Depression is an illness that can affect any mother at any time after the birth of the baby. It can manifest in a wide variety of ...  Read the complete review

When I found out I was expecting, I suddenly felt this overwhelming rush of emotions. i'd taken two tests after dropping the first down the toilet through sheer nerves. Over the following weeks, everything started revolving around the unborn cluster of cells which was growing inside me. My partner, apparently overjoyed at the news, was ...  Read the complete review

Having a new baby is difficult at the best of times, but when the baby blues set in a few days after, it becomes an emotional rollercoaster. Imagine if those baby blues don't go away and although you're overwhelmed by the arrival of your bundle of joy, you just find it so difficult to give even a little smile. If you can imagine this, you've ...  Read the complete review

It seems like a long time since I suffered from post-natal depression but it was only last year. A combination of factors aggravated the symptoms and made me sink deeper into depression. There has never been any doubt that me and my other half wanted our baby. We planned the pregnancy and everything worked out alright. In ...  Read the complete review

Post natal depression is something that I thought I would never suffer from. I am a happy person who has never suffered from depresson in the past. I had my baby boy nearly a year ago, and at first everything was fine. I had the bond with him, I was coping ok, and getting over the delivery. It wasn't until my son was about six months old that I ...  Read the complete review

Where do I start........ Im kelly and i have post natel depression!!! good a start as any i suppose. It all started when i fell pregnant with my daughter, I though it was going to be all ok, I had suffered from pre eclampsia in my first pregnancy and thought this pregnancy was going to be much better.....well i was wrong!! It ...  Read the complete review

I must admit, I am not sure wether to write about this or not, but I have read some of the others, and if it can be uselful to even one person then it will make it worth writing about. I had my son in 2002, having had a fabulous pregnancy I was organised for the new arrival, and very very excited. Not going into details, but my birth ...  Read the complete review

For a long time now Ive side-stepped over talking openly or even writing about my experience of Post-Natal depression- some of it is down to a slight tinge of shame about my illness, and part is related to not wanting to dredge it all up and ponder those awful feelings again. Theres just a small part of me that hates revisiting that hellish time, ...  Read the complete review

I suffered with post natal depression after bith of my children were born. With my first it started after a couple of weeks where I was struggling with breastfeeding her and began to feel a failure, it progressed from there to the point where because I was so tired as she would sleep all day and be awake feeding and crying most of the night that I ...  Read the complete review

The birth of a new baby is a time of joy and celebration but for the one in ten new mums who suffer from postnatal depression this joy is missing. Most new mums have an attack of the baby blues, feeling weepy and down a few days after the birth due to hormone changes but others suffer a much more severe problem. I was twenty when ...  Read the complete review

post natal depression is when you become depressed after having a baby often for no reason at all, If you are suffering from post natal depression or have suffered from it do not think you are alone, 1 in 10 women suffer from post natal depression. When my first daughter was born i felt very down in my self, didnt want to be bothered to ...  Read the complete review

First a bit about postnatal depression. What is post natal depression Post natal depression (P.N.D) happens after having a baby, it doesnt happen to everyone although it does happen to 1 in 10 women. It can last weeks, months or even years. Sometimes there are reasons why women get it but most of the time the reason is unknown. One ...  Read the complete review

Hi there, I have decided to share my experiences of the dreaded post natal depression. I have 2 childen aged 3.5years and 2.5months. I suffered p.n.d. with my first child but have not (so far) suffered with my second. In general I am a very strong and quite independant person with quite a lively personality. Throughout my first ...  Read the complete review