Not sure where I should post this thread, but celebrity discussions seem good here and it was about a magazine interview so...
There was an interview with Brooke Shields in Good Housekeeping where she admitted to having post partum depression. I was in line at the grocery store so I skimmed it as quickly as I could. I wanted to see if she mentioned breastfeeding and whether or not she felt depression played any role in truncating her breastfeeding relationship (not that she would think it was truncated, but I thought it would be interesting if she did see it that way). I didn't get to read much of it so I was wondering if anyone else had.
Basically, the things she was saying seemed very normal to me. Like she and her husband got home with the baby and then it was like "now what?" And she also imagined throwing her baby up against a wall even though she didn't want to do it, but she was worried she might. Or something like that. There have been enough threads about the fear of hurting the baby that I know that that one is pretty common. I used to imagine every possible bad thing happening, and I'd imagine that people were coming to torture my baby and I had to kill her first to keep her from suffering and I'd try to imagine how I'd do it.
I was reading some of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books and they had some nasty scenes in the second one. I asked my friend who lent them to me what in the heck was going through the author's mind when she came up with this stuff. My friend replied that she had just had a baby and had to prove she hadn't lost her edge. Thinking about it, the author was probably imagining all these horrible scenes happening to her and her family and it was probably some sort of post partum catharsis thing.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone had read it.
There was an interview with Brooke Shields in Good Housekeeping where she admitted to having post partum depression. I was in line at the grocery store so I skimmed it as quickly as I could. I wanted to see if she mentioned breastfeeding and whether or not she felt depression played any role in truncating her breastfeeding relationship (not that she would think it was truncated, but I thought it would be interesting if she did see it that way). I didn't get to read much of it so I was wondering if anyone else had.
Basically, the things she was saying seemed very normal to me. Like she and her husband got home with the baby and then it was like "now what?" And she also imagined throwing her baby up against a wall even though she didn't want to do it, but she was worried she might. Or something like that. There have been enough threads about the fear of hurting the baby that I know that that one is pretty common. I used to imagine every possible bad thing happening, and I'd imagine that people were coming to torture my baby and I had to kill her first to keep her from suffering and I'd try to imagine how I'd do it.
I was reading some of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books and they had some nasty scenes in the second one. I asked my friend who lent them to me what in the heck was going through the author's mind when she came up with this stuff. My friend replied that she had just had a baby and had to prove she hadn't lost her edge. Thinking about it, the author was probably imagining all these horrible scenes happening to her and her family and it was probably some sort of post partum catharsis thing.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone had read it.
