Writer Helen Walsh bravely shares her experiences as a first-time mum in this essay (warning: it's on the longish side) in the UK's Guardian newspaper. Among other
things, Walsh says she sometimes felt suicidal in the difficult weeks
after giving birth to her son, and that the support of doctors and
other women didn't fully ease the pain.
"There seems to be a collective code of silence governing those first
few months of motherhood," she writes. "Maybe it is born of a time-cherished will to
preserve the magical aura of new birth for all expectant mothers. Or
maybe it's simply too horrid to acknowledge - the idea that we might
not fall head over heels in love with our newborn is plain unthinkable.
As a mother, I now know why those women abandon their babies in church
yards and hospital toilets."
A few points about this provocative piece...
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