Great article in The Post and Courier today on PPD and highlighting the Moms’ Run: Postpartum Depression: Information, a supportive community critical to helping women
When Sarah Moore’s husband pointedly asked her if she was having thoughts of hurting herself or her 2-month-old daughter, Moore could only nod.
“If he hadn’t asked me that, I wouldn’t have told him,” the West Ashley mom says.
Moore was trapped in a guilty spiral of worrisome thoughts that are common among women with postpartum depression, according to experts.
“I was super anxious. I would wake up in the morning with a knot in my stomach thinking about having to get through the day with her,” Moore says. “It’s not at all what I pictured it to be. I felt so guilty about that.”
While Moore felt she was the only woman to ever feel that way, an average of 15 percent of new moms experienced symptoms of postpartum depression between 2004 and ’08, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.