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Bipolar After Birthing in a Hospital

I lost my mind, after I had my babies in the hospital.

Why? I have a theory, and that theory is that right after birth, a mother needs to be with her baby, or else the body instinctively responds to the absence of the baby with stress hormones.
I call it the dead baby syndrome. If mother and child are not immediately attached and allowed to start the breastfeeding and in-arms bonding process, the woman reacts instinctively, intuitively processing the absence of the child as the child's death.

Now, logically, the woman understands that the child is just being taken away for care or tests. But the primitive, primal nature and subconscious mind cannot understand or process the absence as anything but 'my baby has died'. And so, begins the spiral of grief and emotional instability.

This is my bipolar 'trigger' story. I know of one other woman who claims to have developed bipolarity after she had her kids. Perhaps more research can be done in this area, and we could determine if a stressful birth and birthing experience has effects on the emotional and mental health of an already tired, fragile and hormonally imbalanced woman.

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  1. AudreyApril 29, 2019 at 5:56 PM

    Many women find it a relief to have their babies taken away after a stressful birth. But do all of us who do not find this a relief have to conform to such standards? I had to fight very hard to obtain compromise and some form of normalcy with my 2 hospital births. Great post!

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