Post by sunnygirl on Jan 14, 2009 16:24:43 GMT
I had an extreme form of PP. I was taken away from my baby for seven days from about the tenth day after the birth. I did not know what I was doing and couldn't connect my brain to the things I was doing and could not carry out simple tasks. I was then drugged up to the eyeballs and all I did was wander up and down a corridor to the toilet and continually wash my hands, as somewhere in there I knew I had a baby and that my hands must be clean, but that's all I remember doing. Then something clicked on the eighth day when I seemed to be aware of my surroundings again. I was then taken to the mother and baby unit of the local hospital.
I went home after two days although I was booked in for a week. My parents stayed with me and it was about 40 days after the birth that I felt able to look after my own baby.
The first sign that things were wrong after the birth I would say was the intense sweating with the heat in the post natal ward which made me flummoxed and couldn't concentrate. Was this the drop in hormones?
The first signs of me getting better were at three weeks when the health visitor brought me in a packet of my birth control pills, as obviously another baby at that stage would not have been wise.
So did the pills make a difference ?- I think so.
I know I felt drained and I was very slow to do things at first, but it got better and better although it took a few months before I felt entirely 'normal'
Has any research been done concerning what happened before the birth?
Was I happy before hand - no, but that was because of my partner - I desperately wanted my baby.
What was the effect of the blood transfusion after the birth - anyone else had a blood transfusion and got pp?
Everyone came in to take pictures of the baby afterwards. I remember feeling pretty woozie afterwards. What was the effect on me of the flash photography?
Just what caused it? Was it a combination of everything?
I had never heard of postnatal depression before the birth let alone PP and had never heard of anyone talking about it.
I think the main thing is that when you are feeling better you just want to blank out that bad time cos it was so horrendous that you just dont want to talk about it. It is only now thirty years later that maybe I can talk about it and offer support for others, because it does end and does get better.
I went home after two days although I was booked in for a week. My parents stayed with me and it was about 40 days after the birth that I felt able to look after my own baby.
The first sign that things were wrong after the birth I would say was the intense sweating with the heat in the post natal ward which made me flummoxed and couldn't concentrate. Was this the drop in hormones?
The first signs of me getting better were at three weeks when the health visitor brought me in a packet of my birth control pills, as obviously another baby at that stage would not have been wise.
So did the pills make a difference ?- I think so.
I know I felt drained and I was very slow to do things at first, but it got better and better although it took a few months before I felt entirely 'normal'
Has any research been done concerning what happened before the birth?
Was I happy before hand - no, but that was because of my partner - I desperately wanted my baby.
What was the effect of the blood transfusion after the birth - anyone else had a blood transfusion and got pp?
Everyone came in to take pictures of the baby afterwards. I remember feeling pretty woozie afterwards. What was the effect on me of the flash photography?
Just what caused it? Was it a combination of everything?
I had never heard of postnatal depression before the birth let alone PP and had never heard of anyone talking about it.
I think the main thing is that when you are feeling better you just want to blank out that bad time cos it was so horrendous that you just dont want to talk about it. It is only now thirty years later that maybe I can talk about it and offer support for others, because it does end and does get better.
