What I Wish I Would Have Known About Postpartum Depression
6 min readJan 20, 2020
“You want to give him back. You want your old life back.”
“He’s like a parasite, right?”
“I wanted to jump off a bridge after Owen was born.”
Is this what someone normally says to a new mother holding her days-old baby? No, probably not. But these are things my friends said to me right after my son was born. You…
