Do You Have the Baby Blues or Postpartum Depression?
Saturday February 16, 2008
After I had my son, I fell into a funk that I just couldn't seem to get out of. Luckily, with a little time and taking care of myself, things began to feel like normal again.
If you've just given birth and are feeling a bit down, you may just have the "baby blues." This will usually resolve on its own fairly quickly, but there are things you and your partner can do to ease the symptoms. Learn what you can do to battle the blues, and find out if it may be something more serious, like postpartum depression.
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Presently there is a case in the Utah court of Appeals May 2009.
The civil case was in Logan, Utah. It is about a women who delivered twins, and at the same time adopted a child from Asia. As most of us mothers know that have suffered post partim depression, you are for the most part unaware that you are suffering from it.
The crazy part of this story in Utah, is that the judge, Stantion Taylor ignored the fact that the mother suffered from PPD and actually called it a “chemical imbalanced” when in fact it is a hormonal imbalance. So even a judge who presided over the case was not educated on PPD yet he continued to preside and never educated himself as to the effect it can have on a mother especially one who gave birth to twins.
Interesting enough, it was a child custody battle. I was sent the link as in Utah you can actually hear the oral arguments. The mother was appealing to the Utah court of appeals. Seems the adoption agency took their child that they adopted from Asia, and this same adoption agency owners were indicted and convicted of federal crimes. The adoption agency was called Focus on Children, The owners are or were I should say Scott and Karen Banks. I googled them and WOW, what losers. Seems they ran a corrupt adoption agency that bartered Samoan children for food stuffs.
So the mother who suffered PPD was looking for respite care and these loser adoption agency owners were looking to take the child from them and then they wanted to keep the child. The oral arguments talks about these Scott and Karen Banks people and their probation and some other adopted kids that they adopted but did not keep them in their home, and there was one child who was severly neglected in their home.
For all woment who have suffered from post partim depression, we should be outraged by this judge in Logan, Utah who ignored this fact and called it a “chemical problem”. It is truely unbelivable that in this year 2009, such a judge would sit at a
If you think you might be suffering from the baby blues or postpartum depression, read this:
http://expectingwords.com/my-baby-blues