Candace believes it is important to have a mental health module on prenatal classes.

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Initially, I would say yes, of course, because, you know, postpartum adjustment issues can happen to anyone. We, we know that people are more prone to some of these issues, depending on circumstance, but, but then again, I, I don’t, I wouldn’t … [Laughs] It’s so … I don’t want to scare people either. So it’s the whole, you know, you talk about, like, your labour can be quite awful and not many people share that because they don’t want to take away, you know, they don’t want to make people afraid. But you’re almost doing them a justice by not sharing that with them.

So I feel the same way with postpartum. You hope that nobody has it, but I’m pretty sure the reality is a lot of people have some form of it, and it’s you want to make sure it doesn’t get worse, right? So yes, I would, yes, prenatal for sure, but see, again, having gone through having no worries about it before, then having it really bad after, I don’t know how I would have reacted to the, you know, in the prenatal class having, like, a whole session on it. I might … You know? I don’t know.

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