Even though her family tried to give Christine time to sleep, she still could not fall asleep and would often just lay down and cry.

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I kept trying to sort of assume it was gonna go away, like I had, my baby was healthy for all intents and purposes, and my family was around, and everyone tried trying to give me time to go and sleep and lay down. But even when I would lay down to sleep, I really didn’t fall asleep, I was just, my brain was just so anxious about everything. I usually would just go and lay down and cry, and just sort of think about what had just happened and then kind of maybe fall asleep for like a half hour, and then I’d be awake. And then I would have to go and try and nurse and do other things.

And I just kept thinking about how I didn’t have any escape from this circumstance. So probably, I remember… my son was about two weeks old. And my mom came down in the morning, and I just basically gave her my son. And I went and lay down and the only time I would get up was to pump breast milk.

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