Blues made me want to kill baby

by sweet east pearl | June 12, 2008 at 11:20 pm

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Having a baby can be both exhilarating and exhausting. It can bring much joy, but it can also challenge you in ways you never expected. Soon after giving birth, many women feel weepy and moody. You may be blessed with a beautiful baby and a loving partner, yet you find yourself crying over things that usually wouldn't bother you.

You may also feel exhausted, unable to sleep, trapped, or anxious. Your appetite may increase or decrease, or you might feel irritable, nervous, worried about being a good mother, or afraid that being a mother will never feel better than it does right now.

WHEN she bundled baby daughter India into her car and headed for a brick wall at high speed, Lisa Tanner was not in her right mind.

She didn’t know it at the time, but she was suffering from severe post natal depression.

Mum's army ... Lisa with daughters

Around one in 10 women in the UK experience PND after having a baby - symptoms range from irritability, tiredness and lack of appetite to feeling guilty, anxious and suicidal.

Lisa, 35, has every sympathy for Sasikala Navaneethan, a mother who was sectioned under the Mental Health Act earlier this week, suspected of stabbing two of her children to death and critically wounding her six-month-old baby.

She says: “Her case is obviously rare - and extreme - but I can imagine the desperation she was feeling.”