The birth of a child can birth several emotions in new mothers, emotions like happiness, peace, love, sadness, fear, anxiety, and many more. When all of this sets in the mother is usually overwhelmed as her emotions are all over the place and her ability to control them can be pretty difficult.
It's no news that 1 out of 10 women are affected by Post Partum Depression (PPD) what do you expect from a person who assumes a new role and must not perform poorly in this role lest it affects her baby?
The changes a woman's body goes through are enough to throw her into depression. As a lady when you start seeing your period it takes days for your body to adjust how much more giving birth and your body doesn't take days but months or even years to adjust properly back to how it was.
While we celebrate the birth of a child by throwing different parties to commemorate this significant event, we shouldn't forget the one who had to carry this child for 9 months and single-handedly brought him or her into this world.
No doubt that family and friends visit often and help the new mothers but after a few weeks they are practically left alone to handle everything and this is the period they get more depressed. They are all alone, juggling so much and they cannot turn a blind eye to these things because they are important. At this point, these women begin to lose their minds and most of them might end up even hating their children for relegating them to such position.
To help mothers dealing with PPD, family members and friends have so much role to play in making sure they recover as fast as they can.
These women need to be appreciated every now and then, they need to know the weight of the sacrifice they had to go through, and they need to know how important they are to the family as most of them tend to feel invisible. We need to show them that they are seen, heard, adored, and loved.
These heroines need to be reminded of how amazing they are, bringing forth angels to the world, what else is more amazing than this?
Morse so, these new mothers have to be cut some slack. After birth, you do not expect her to immediately become that perfect wife and mother that you knew her to be. A lot is going on in her life and they are all happening simultaneously, so you need to cut her some slack because she will make mistakes, she will drive you crazy, she will drive you to the point where you will have to question her sanity at times, but bear in mind that these are all temporary and in no time she'd be back to being the sweet angel that you know.
These new mums do not need to be reminded of their old selves just yet as it can hit some nerves. Some of them may hate themselves for not being able to do all the stuff they would have ordinarily done in a heartbeat. Some can hate their body size or complexion after birth, so this period is pretty sensitive to them so one must be careful with what they say around them.
While they struggle to find their footing again we should be there for them every step of the way. Patience is a virtue so, please let's be patient with them.
These and many more are the things we can do to help new mothers out of this difficult phase.
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