Postpartum Depression Speech

Now let’s talk about how emotions play a role in postpartum depression. After a mother gives birth she is constantly taking care of a baby that doesn’t sleep much, which is then causing the mother to not have enough sleep. When you don’t get enough sleep, most of the time any minor thing bothers you and overall you just have a lousy day because your body needs 7-8 hours asleep every night, but when you have a newborn you sleep about 4 hours a night, the most. No one can handle being deprived of their sleep, so image a mother trying to figure out how to sleep and take care of a newborn. This makes handling minor problems difficult and has a mother thinking about her ability to take care of a newborn, making her feel that she isn’t a good mother

or wasn’t fit to be a mother. The article Mayo Clinic also states that emotionally “you may feel less attractive, struggle with your sense of identity or feel that you’ve lost control over your life (Mayo Staff).”. If we think about it when you put together your emotions and your physical issues, it causes your mind to go crazy and think about all the negative things in life, which will make you just want to sleep, but overall you can’t so deep inside you just feel depressed about life.