You may already have some idea of how pivotal this time period is for both you and your family’s long term health.  Or perhaps you are in the throes of the postpartum time and it is going differently than you expected.  There can be a mismatch between how you expected to feel and how you feel.

“I was hanging by a thread, and then I fell.”  —A real live patient describing her last postpartum experience

“I didn’t even realize I was depressed until 5 months went by and I looked back.  I remember sitting in the dark, alone, scared to move because I didn’t want my baby to wake up and start crying again.”  —Another real life postpartum experience described to me by a loved one.