Being a new mom with postpartum depression and anxiety during a global pandemic was incredibly isolating for Erin2.
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You know on top of having depression, and anxiety, and being a new mom and like having to figure everything out for the first time it was also living through a global pandemic that nobody knew anything about. So we didn’t know what COVID was, how contagious it was. We didn’t know what the symptoms were. We didn’t know anything about it at the time, so we were very selective on who we would let come and help.
Like luckily I had – my husband was off for the first six weeks after I gave birth. So he was very involved. My mom did come down for about two weeks, about two weeks after we came home. But then after that it was kind of very isolating because you know just the state of the world that we were in. So it was a very difficult time to try and figure out how to be a new mom with post-partum depression, and anxiety, and a global pandemic happening all at the same time.
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