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Overcome Your Postnatal Depression

Author: Alice Muir, edited by Denise Robertson
Publication info: Hodder Arnold (31 Aug 2007)
ISBN: 0340943246

When your life, or the life of someone dear to you, is turned upside-down by postnatal depression, it can be hard to cope. But you're not alone. In "This Morning: Overcome Your Postnatal Depression", you will find the support that you're looking for, in a book that gives the unique, treasured "This Morning" blend of: practical advice, emotional comfort real-life messages of help and hope. Let Denise Robertson, "This Morning's" much-loved agony aunt, and counsellor Alice Muir, be your companions

So, you've been planning for your expected and probably much wanted baby, you've given birth, everything has gone well and the baby is perfect. Why then do you feel so numb, so empty, so desperately miserable? It really doesn't make sense and, if it doesn't to you, it certainly doesn't make sense to those around you. Having a baby can deliver a huge shock to the system, both physically and emotionally. Suddenly nothing is the same and, even if you have the most angelic of newborns, they are still completely dependent on you for their very existence. Other mothers around seem so capable, so, well, motherly but you feel desperately hopeless. In fact you may function adequately, getting all the tasks done and providing for your infant's needs but why can't you stop crying; why do you feel so utterly worthless? If you are a first time mother, you may even think to yourself "perhaps this is how everyone feels when they have a new baby". Well it isn't. You are in a new place and a very unhappy place too: it's called Postnatal Depression. The good news is that you are not alone and that it is a recognised condition that is treatable by the team who have been supporting you through your pregnancy and birth. The other good news is that this book has been put together to give you all the information and support you need to make that journey back to a life worth living. Written with both the couple and the single mum in mind, it explodes myths about bonding and much else, and explains many of the things you and your family now find incomprehensible. With this support you will come to find a new way forward to enjoying one of the wonderful experiences life has to offer.

Added : 03 September 2007

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