During her second pregnancy, Erin was closely monitored due to complications in her first pregnancy and mental health problems.
Transcript
It was a bit – it was very hopeful going into it. But like I said, it was a difficult pregnancy right from the beginning, because of the extreme nausea and vomiting. But I was going to this very, I guess, very intense obstetrical program that treats women with all sorts of high risk issues. I was being seen often. I was seeing – I had went from sort of my regular psychiatrist, because at this point, I was seeing a regular psychiatrist, back to the special perinatal psychiatrist. I had spoken about whi – you know, which medications were safe to take to – with pregnancy and which weren’t. I was basically taking the same. I think I went off of one – one thing. I – I was getting all the prenatal tests done. I couldn’t work because of the nausea and vomiting, but basically, I was told, all along, and like I said, every month, I was getting blood tests and ultrasounds. Everything – I was being told everything was fine with this pregnancy. I’m doing really well. You know, they don’t – they don’t predict any pre-eclampsia. My placenta’s good.
Interviewer: But what about your emotional health?
Again, like I said, I thought I was in a better place this time, that I didn’t have like all the stresses like my partner not having a job. You know, if I had – I was on different medications.
Interviewer: What were the medications treating?
The – I had been – two years after I had my son, I was diagnosed as having Bipolar Type II. Basically, after I had him, and I went back to work, I got better for a bit, and then it got bad again. And then it got better for a bit, and then it got bad again.
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