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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should be discussed heavily before doing so. If you suffer from depression or anxiety, it’s 10xs harder so the expectation should be that you may struggle parent vs the breezy social media posts we see. [/quote] You can develop mental illness at any point. If a woman had post-partum depression with her first child should she not have any more children since the risk is very high for a recurrence?[/quote] Yes. In fact my experience with friends is those who continued to have children after bad post partum depression regretted it. It was too much to do it again with an older child to also care for. Their marriages and families suffered. I stopped at one because the birth experience was harder than I realized it would be[/quote]
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