New help for moms with postpartum depression

Lauren Meehan a former Miss New Hampshire was feeling overwhelmed and panicky since giving birth to her first child. She over thought about getting feedings and naps right that she stopped eating and sleeping herself. She started throwing up and crying continuously. She had gotten a prescription medication for postpartum anxiety by her doctor. She told her husband about what she was thinking the other day, which was that she was thinking about driving her car off the road and that all things would go away as in her not having to worry about the baby or what she was going through. Her husband could not believe what he had just heard, and was shocked. His obstetrician referred her to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and there doctors debuted a groundbreaking inpatient psychiatric unit, that tailored to women suffering perinatal mood disorders.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most common complication of childbirth,
striking approximately 15 percent of new mothers each year. Most of these don't
need intensive intervention; standard treatments include counseling and
medication. But there are severe cases: women swallowed up by anxiety, who,
despite the exhaustion of a newborn, can't sleep. Women who can't stop obsessing
over the terrible things that might happen to their babies, or who think about
hurting their children -- or themselves. There are many possible reasons for
this. Experts agree, for example, that PPD is under-reported. But another factor
might be that hospitalization can seem like a pretty scary idea. Especially
considering that moms requiring or requesting it have had only one option:
general psychiatric wards, the same locked units that care for drug addicts,
schizophrenics, and patients with bipolar or eating disorders.

I found this article "New help for moms with postpartum depression" interesting because there are quite a bit of women who go through this and I don't think its fair to them especially if those moms were really excited for having a baby. I know that if I was to have a child I wouldn't want to feel depressed about the child and have thoughts of suicide or hurting the baby because it's not the baby's fault for why you feel that way. And a new mother or a previous mother deserves to feel happy for the new life she had created.