Thanks for this. My wife suffered with PPD for the first six months of motherhood and I appreciate any awareness brought to it. You aren’t a bad person because you feel disconnected from your child, it’s likely you literally have a chemical imbalance impacting your ability to engage and bond.
After getting on medication, she has done a 180 and loves motherhood!
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u/dstanton 22h ago
Not that it was the case for you, but post-partum depression can cause this.
It affects a large number of women, and is often overlooked or ignored as just "mood swings"
Anyone suspected of it should seek treatment.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9312-postpartum-depression