You are not a mother when you give birth to a child, you become one. And this is sometimes accompanied by complications. After giving birth, some women experience complicated weeks or even months. This is referred to as the baby blues and a feeling of incompetence can develop soon after the baby is born.
This state is meant to be temporary, unlike postpartum depression, which settles down over time and affects 30% of mothers, according to a 2021 OpinionWay survey.Alessandra SubletCeline Dion, Jennifer Lopez or Audrey Fleurot who have not hesitated to talk about it.
Gwyneth Paltrow: ‘I felt bad, depressed, pessimistic’
If postpartum depression is still taboo, some star moms have confided the difficulties they encountered after the birth of their child, such as Gwyneth Paltrow who became depressed after the birth of her son Moses. “It was a difficult period. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I really felt out of my body. Disconnected. I felt bad, depressed, pessimistic”, she explained in an interview with InStyle. Similar feelings for Chrissy Teigen after the birth of her daughter Luna: “I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet I was not”. Baby blues and postpartum depression are often hormone-influenced disorders.
Courteney Cox, who suffered from postpartum depression…
