It was like a series of tsunami waves and I could not get back up for air. Everything I’d heard about motherhood was that it was going to be the best time of your life, but I got the shock of my life
Becoming a mom is one of life’s greatest gifts but it is also the greatest transformation, emotionally, physically and mentally any human being will ever undertake.
. The same transformation happens to mothers in terms of physically, emotionally and psychologically we’re at our most vulnerable. So if you’re someone who previously suffered from anxiety, but it was never to the point where it held you back from anything, you’re now more likely to feel that tenfold. If you suffered any level of trauma in your life, that is going to come to the surface.
So they are two very different things, I always say every single woman will struggle with her mental health, but we might not all have postnatal depression.A survey I carried out amongst 2,000 women showed 37 per cent of mothers admit they have, even for a single moment, regretted becoming a mom. Almost 90 per cent admitted that their reality of motherhood felt much harder than what they expected it would be prior to having children.
During that stage we are incredibly vulnerable, particularly from a psychological perspective. Then if you layer that with matresence, it happens each time you have a baby and can last up to ten years. And then you enter perimenopause which is a whole other story. As women, we are constantly going through an evolution and yet many of us are silently struggling without support.When I meet a soon-to-be mother I give them what I call, the “postpartum parachute”.
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