Mother Courage - Pushing prams in the dark
'I didn't feel anything.' When the baby blues become so much more. Reporter Claire Graham hears from mums and their maternal mental health while sharing her own battles.
‘I didn’t feel anything’. After looking forward to the birth of her daughter, reporter Claire Graham was diagnosed with post-natal anxiety and depression. Two years on, she meets women from across Northern Ireland who've fought their own battles with post-natal mental health and discovers that loving your child doesn’t always begin at birth.While in 2020, some mums in hospital care have been separated from their babies during a pandemic. How can the stigma of the ‘baby blues’ be broken, what help is out there and why does motherhood mark such a change in a woman’s life, in her heart and her head?
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