Hello, and welcome to Among the Lillies. I'm your host, Cameron Fred, and I'm going to chat with you today about postpartum depression.

First of all, I need to let you know that I'm not purposely wearing a wrinkled shirt that's also stained.

There's a lovely, a lovely stained and it's wrinkled, but the reason is I wore a cute green dress and I have a green screen.

So as you can see, you wouldn't see me if I just had my dress on.

So ignore the wrinkled look. You ladies are tired of pretending you're ready to be real.

You're fine that I have a wrinkled stained shirt on, right?

It may make you feel more right at home because maybe you also have a wrinkled stained shirt on.

Yeah, I'm so sorry that it's been a while since I've done an episode.

Yeah, I want to tell you all about France and everything, but I'm going to do that later.

I feel like I really, on my heart, feel the need to chat with you all about postpartum depression.

It is something that I dealt with with my fourth child and it was really rough and a good friend on

Patreon. One of our Patreon members, one of our among the Lillies ladies, has been dealing with

recently. We've actually had two girls in the last year that have suffered pretty greatly from

postpartum depression and it's been really beautiful seeing the Marco Polo patrons kind of gather

around her and support her and love her in this time. Not also as a friend that just had a baby

who he is, I believe, four pounds. I think his name is Gabriel, so preform. I don't want to give

too much information to that family and I don't know if that mom's going to suffer from postpartum

depression or not. I don't want to put that on her, but Matt was reading us what happened and it

sounded a lot like what happened to our son Peter. And so I just wanted to take a time to just kind

of share a little bit more of my story, what happened with the birth of Peter and just how it was

suffering from postpartum depression and I think it was something that not that I didn't think

was okay to talk about. I was in denial that I had it and I was really blessed that I had had

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