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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clancy has my sympathy. She is a Labor & Delivery RN now midwife in 5 days a week outpatient treatment for postpartum depression—she was trying mightily to help herself as was her husband. Sounds like crossover to postpartum psychosis—she will be heartbroken at what she did under SEVERE mental illness. My sympathies to her children deceased, her infant, her husband and yes to her. A nightmare.[/quote]

I have sympathy and she tried to off herself as well. I think Yates killed her kids and didn’t do anything to herself. But..I believe this post partum psychosis is real. She is going to have to live with this forever.  The sad thing is I think a lot of this is tied to lack of sleep and so many people judge if a new mom wants help. I remember I got a lot of judgement for having a night nanny. Luckily I have a great husband who basically told me to put myself first and I did. Without sleep and without an opportunity to exercise or meet with a friend then a severe depression and can develop. It seems like her husband tried and maybe things went sideways with all the meds. Seraqual is a really powerful drug and cannot believe she was on that with others. Maybe the best thing in retrospect would have been inpatient treatment. Anyway new parents should really prioritize sleep and well being. The best thing you can do for a new mom is offer to watch the baby’s so they can nap or offer to take their other kids (if they have them) out so less chaos in the house. 
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And maybe don’t have three kids in less than five years. Even though posters will jump on here to claim that their mom had 8 kids and didn’t kill any of them! Still, 3 kids under five in this day and age is bananas. And she wasn’t even old or facing a biological clock. What is the rush? The third clearly out her over the edge because she was seemingly ok with the first two.[/quote]
So, forced abortions like in China?[/quote]
Again, social media competition, having babies has become a competition. I have a sister in law, Lindsay’s age, who admitted she was struggling with PPD, no surprise there because she was mentally unstable prior to having kids. She’s been on multiple antidepressants since her teenaged years. Her two kids are 15 months apart, and shortly after the second one was born she wanted to try for another! Why? Her mother, my MIL, kept pushing it, saying how nice another baby would be? Keep in mind my MIL was a horrible, neglectful single mother, who never had a stable life, lived on welfare, drank and abused drugs. The third baby hasn’t happened yet as I think her husband would have no parts of that, and rightfully so. She currently has no job, as she couldn’t ever handle the pressures of a full time career, ever, especially after kids, so she contributes nada financially. She has a strong social media presence, as do all her ‘friends’ and most of the friends also have three kids about 1-2 years apart. It’s insane, it’s extremely attention seeking behavior. The poor kids are being used as props. Every time we visit her the kids aren’t dressed, wearing full diapers only, the house is a shi!hole, they have no food except crap snacks, but they have beautiful family portraits taken and hung up on the wall and her social media is full of statements of how lucky she is and how wonderful her kids are and attractive photos of herself. She lays on the sofa all day watching youtube kids with her babies. They barely function every day, she’s lazy, always has been, and now she’s responsible for two other people and wants a third. I just cannot wrap my head around it. She had to give her dog away before she even had kids, because the dog was too much of a burden.[/quote]

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