Hi everyone, My name is Shruti and I am a mother of 2 months old baby boy. I have chosen #letsdoit for me because I want all the moms and beautiful ladies to enjoy both the phases of their pregnancy whether it is pre pregnancy stage or post pregnancy(motherhood).
So this is my first post and I will be sharing my experience about depression in pre pregnancy stage.
With lots of awareness now people has started to understand and talk about postpartum depression but still prenatal depression is something which is not talked about.
Yes that feeling of persistent sadness, sleeping for long durations or not sleeping at all, feeling of committing suicide, loss of interest in activities you loved doing etc. All these symptoms fall into the category of Prenatal Depression.
When I first heard about my pregnancy I was at the happiest moment of my life unknown to what was coming my way in few months. It was also an early phase of my marriage so simultaneously I was struggling with my settlement in the new house.
As my pregnancy continued new challenges came in the way in form of mood swings, feeling too emotional and sensitive, loss of energy etc. In early months me and my husband were living alone in other state so frequent travels to home use to worsen my health. Thus i suffered a lot physically body ache, swelling, loss of appetite were some common factors which lead to the feeling of sadness and loneliness.
Soon we decided to move with family so i could get appropriate love and care which was needed and i could feel happy in the family.
In my 8th month we moved to ghaziabad unknown to what was on my way i lived the biggest nightmare of my life in those two months of pregnancy, my health deteriorated day my day, stress levels were high, feeling of lonliness, sadness, not living anymore was on my head for every single minute no matter i was sleeping or not i had these feelings. On realising that something is wrong I talked to my husband and he was a great support. But by the time i realised it was too late i lost all the control over my ming and what i did was crying. Family was not very supportive at that time and they always questioned and triggered that behaviour of mine. Which made the situation worse I developed gestational hypertension and was on medication. Atlast high blood pressure made my pregnancy worse and I had an Induced labour because high bp was affecting my baby's health. It was a very difficult day and i never wanna think about it because it give me that pain and sadness again. After my delivery I realised that stress and anxiety made everything bad my baby was at stake, I suffered bad health, couldn't enjoy my pregnancy etc. Other day I had a question that what it is called and I foubd out this is called Prenatal Depression and very few people know about it. I wanted to talk about this more because if I have been through that dark phase of life I don't know how many other women are going through this and if they are understood or misunderstood. But I had this fear of leaking out my privacy therefore i couldn't write or talk about this on any social media platform but now I finally took a decision and wrote about it in short.
Ladies if you are feeling this first of all please stop blaming yourself with everything which is going wrong right now. There is a beautiful life inside you which is getting affected with all this. Studies have shown that mothers who suffer prenatal depression their babies tend to develop ADHD or stress and anxiety issues later in life.
Please talk to somebody whom you trust who can support you keep you positive. If you don't have anyone try to do it yourself think about your baby talk to him/her.
Eat whatever you like.
Practice light yoga.
If nothing helps talk to your doctor.
Most importantly take a stand for yourself if your situations at home are not favourable speak for it don't stay quiet as this will make you more weak.
I wish all the expecting moms a very healthy and most importantly happy pregnancy and delivery.
@khushboo chouhan
#BBCreatorsClub
#Pregnancy
#letsdoit
#prenataldepression
So this is my first post and I will be sharing my experience about depression in pre pregnancy stage.
With lots of awareness now people has started to understand and talk about postpartum depression but still prenatal depression is something which is not talked about.
Yes that feeling of persistent sadness, sleeping for long durations or not sleeping at all, feeling of committing suicide, loss of interest in activities you loved doing etc. All these symptoms fall into the category of Prenatal Depression.
When I first heard about my pregnancy I was at the happiest moment of my life unknown to what was coming my way in few months. It was also an early phase of my marriage so simultaneously I was struggling with my settlement in the new house.
As my pregnancy continued new challenges came in the way in form of mood swings, feeling too emotional and sensitive, loss of energy etc. In early months me and my husband were living alone in other state so frequent travels to home use to worsen my health. Thus i suffered a lot physically body ache, swelling, loss of appetite were some common factors which lead to the feeling of sadness and loneliness.
Soon we decided to move with family so i could get appropriate love and care which was needed and i could feel happy in the family.
In my 8th month we moved to ghaziabad unknown to what was on my way i lived the biggest nightmare of my life in those two months of pregnancy, my health deteriorated day my day, stress levels were high, feeling of lonliness, sadness, not living anymore was on my head for every single minute no matter i was sleeping or not i had these feelings. On realising that something is wrong I talked to my husband and he was a great support. But by the time i realised it was too late i lost all the control over my ming and what i did was crying. Family was not very supportive at that time and they always questioned and triggered that behaviour of mine. Which made the situation worse I developed gestational hypertension and was on medication. Atlast high blood pressure made my pregnancy worse and I had an Induced labour because high bp was affecting my baby's health. It was a very difficult day and i never wanna think about it because it give me that pain and sadness again. After my delivery I realised that stress and anxiety made everything bad my baby was at stake, I suffered bad health, couldn't enjoy my pregnancy etc. Other day I had a question that what it is called and I foubd out this is called Prenatal Depression and very few people know about it. I wanted to talk about this more because if I have been through that dark phase of life I don't know how many other women are going through this and if they are understood or misunderstood. But I had this fear of leaking out my privacy therefore i couldn't write or talk about this on any social media platform but now I finally took a decision and wrote about it in short.
Ladies if you are feeling this first of all please stop blaming yourself with everything which is going wrong right now. There is a beautiful life inside you which is getting affected with all this. Studies have shown that mothers who suffer prenatal depression their babies tend to develop ADHD or stress and anxiety issues later in life.
Please talk to somebody whom you trust who can support you keep you positive. If you don't have anyone try to do it yourself think about your baby talk to him/her.
Eat whatever you like.
Practice light yoga.
If nothing helps talk to your doctor.
Most importantly take a stand for yourself if your situations at home are not favourable speak for it don't stay quiet as this will make you more weak.
I wish all the expecting moms a very healthy and most importantly happy pregnancy and delivery.
@khushboo chouhan
#BBCreatorsClub
#Pregnancy
#letsdoit
#prenataldepression
Thanks for sharing ur journey
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So well written
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Hello Shruti, it takes a lot of effort to write about this topic! Thank you for sharing your journey with us
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amazingly written thank you for sharing very helpful
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Muskan Jain
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08 Dec 2019