Health
Giving birth seemed to spell disaster for my mental health. Were my anxieties unfounded? – The Guardian
I feared isolation, sleep deprivation and an end to the activities that had been keeping me well. I never expected to be filled with such love and wonder

I hadnt expected to have a baby. But when I turned out to be wrong about that, I found myself expecting the whole thing to be a disaster. It wasnt just that people tend to be rather negative about what early parenthood entails, focusing on the sleepless nights and endless nappy changes. It was also because I had a mental illness that I thought would make it impossible for me to cope at all, let alone enjoy motherhood. Neither had I expected to be giving birth in the middle of a pandemic, in which…
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