Welcome back to the peripheral.

I went to Obsessed Fest in Ohio, and I ended up meeting a bunch of people there and actually offered to do a few interviews, which is this episode.

I talked to two lovely people who, there's no other way to put this,

both went through pregnancies where anything and everything that could have gone wrong went

wrong. We talk about postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and the death of a child.

So just putting that up front.

This first interview, I talked to Caitlin, who talks about the lack of information she was given

after her pregnancy and all of the trials and tribulations that she went through.

My name is Caitlin Gibson, and I am, I don't even know how old I am now, 30-something,

and I have two young boys that I was told I would never have, and I still have recurring issues from

post-traum stress disorder, postpartum depression, and postpartum anxiety.

Did it start happening with the first one, or...

So I have Irish twins because when people tell you you're infertile, apparently you have babies like back to back.

And it was only with my oldest, actually, because he was not a typical pregnancy.

He was not, nothing was typical about that kid and still isn't. When I didn't find out

I was pregnant with him until I think I was 12 weeks pregnant. I was either 10 or 12 weeks pregnant

with him when I found out. I had, I don't remember the name of the full disorder, but as H-G

is the abbreviated form. So I had permanent morning sickness with him from seven weeks.

I thought I just got like a parasite, essentially, when we were on vacation.

Surprise, it was a baby.

So had morning sickness from seven weeks until he was born at 37 weeks.

The birth with him, so a normal labor lasts a while, right?

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