Journalist Jacqueline Mendelsohn experienced mood swings and random bouts of crying with her first child.
“I remember bursting into tears as I brought my daughter home and walked through the front door, overwhelmed by the monumental change of bringing this tiny human into our lives forever,” she says.
But these “baby blues” were transient and soon dissipated.
What she experienced with her second, though, was much different. Struggling with breastfeeding, she felt defeated and exhausted from going into each nursing session with a deep pit of anxiety and fear.
