I am so grateful for the descriptive account of PPD. I've often wondered
exactly what separates PPD from simple exhaustion and adjustment. I have one
friend who simply says she felt "so sad, all the time" and yet she felt that
this really did impair her ability to function, to be  mother and
(obviously ) to enjoy her new child.


Thank you Claudia for sharing, I wonder if you would mind if I printed this
out to save for potential sharing with moms in the future. I could easily
remove your name if that would make a difference.

I am curious to know if any of you either as professionals or as moms have
used homeopathics in this kind of a situation? Or other alternative
therapies (like diet, accupressure, accupuncture etc) instead of or in
conjunction with allopathics? The one friend I have  used homeopathic sepia
with her 5th and 6th children and found it to be very helpful.  I  I know
others who have used B vitamins and cleansing diets with (they feel)
success.

Victoria Fisher in W. Md.

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