PPD/PPA how long does it last?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our ancestors would be amazed at what can be pegged as birth trauma these days. Our generation has lost all resiliency and it’s sad.

Go away.

actual case in point

[Anonymous]

One of my friends who didn't want to treat her PPD with meds still suffers from it 9 years later.

[Anonymous]

Until I was sleeping 8 hours a night for 3 months straight. Not kidding. We semi sleep trained and had our kids sttn at 12 weeks. I didn’t feel completely right until 6m. After 10 weeks Dh got up every single time. My exclusively breastfed babies didn’t want anything to do with him and would rather go back to sleep than hang with him (they were over 50th percentile and plump, not hungry but wanted to comfort feed).

[Anonymous]

I have a close friend who didn’t treat her ppd. Her child is 5yo. She now has written a book about her ppd and has a blog for others. She can’t stop talking about it. Her Dh refuses to have another child with her because if it. He is actually a great guy but says never again. He’s not dealing with unmedicated ppd. She’s now going off the deep end because she wants another child.

In my (unasked for and I didn’t give it) opinion, she lost too much weight too quickly. Which led to no breastmilk. She was determined to breastfeed but wouldn’t eat. Baby ended up hospitalized as failure to thrive. I think if she gave up breastfeeding the whole thing would have been fine. And I’m saying this as someone who loved EBF my 3 but I’m not into the debate and don’t care. Fed is best.

[Anonymous]

Mine lifted once my DD started sleeping through the night, and I was back to getting at least 7 hours of sleep myself most nights. She had severe reflux, and the PPD/PPA/sleep deprivation was so bad that I'm missing huge chunks in my memory of the first 6 months of her life.

I had absolutely no PPD/PPA to speak of after my 2nd DD was born. Likely not a coincidence that she didn't have reflux and was a much, much better sleeper than our first.