If he was going to need to leave in the middle of me pumping, Harper crying, a baby blowing

out their diaper, and another one throwing up, and the dog doing something.

I was so trapped. I was so trapped in this world where my husband got to go to work.

I didn't have any reprieve. There was no one coming to my house. This is real. And this isn't just hormonal. This is a lack of sleep. This is a lack of help. This is a lack of identity. This is, like I said, this is boredom. This is a burden. This is loneliness, it turned into depression.

And she walks in the room, she goes, hey, Amy, how you doing?

And I look like, I go, honestly, I'm not doing very good.

Oh, no, you're not?

What's wrong?

And I thought to myself, I was vulnerable.

I was honest.

I wrote, I answered the questions so honestly that if I read them, I would be like,

she needs help. She needs somebody to hold her hand and say, how can I help you? And she didn't.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and

postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation

consultant. And this is the Down to Birth podcast. Childbirth is something we're made to do,

but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths

and get down to birth. Episode three of the Down to Birth show was a postpartum roundtable

where we brought together three women who had never met before. One was a mom

of one. One was a mom of two. One was a mom of three. And we just put them down in front of this

microphone and they started talking and they covered, as you can imagine, everything from depression,

anxiety, career, sex, you know, intrusive thoughts.

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