Brooke Shields

MY JOURNEY THROUGH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

DOWN CAME THE RAIN

Sarah Sammis

While I've been luck to have not gone through all the trauma that Brooke Shields describes in Down Came the Rain our experiences do have similarities. I know the emotional and physical pain of suffering a miscarriage (I've had two). I know that detachment one can feel during a successful pregnancy: always expecting bad news to happen. I know the pain of recovery from a C-section. As I was under a general anesthetic at the time of my son's birth, her description of a C-section was very informative and useful (I have a planned C-section later this year). While I did not need medication for depression after my son's birth I did feel the same emotions she described in the first few weeks of her daughter's birth. In my case, it was a side effect of the pain medication I was taking for my C-section that was keeping me detached and thinking thoughts I would never otherwise think. I realized that I could handle the pain much better than I could the emotional and mental side effects the pain killers were having on me. Pregnancy, birth and early parenthood are not the all-happy events that they are so often portrayed as. They are hard work and hard emotionally too.

DOWN CAME THE RAIN MY JOURNEY THROUGH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

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