During pregnancy, Karmin believed her symptoms would go away after delivery.
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I thought maybe those kind of feelings and the symptoms of that and everything would go away when I was safe in my arms, but when I had her, I had, like, a pretty traumatic birth and my – I had a bad infection and my daughter had jaundice and things were kind of scary around that time, and I was experiencing a lot of depression then, and it was kind of – I was being told there was, like, baby blues, it’s normal and whatnot. And I would describe my traumatic experience to people, and a lot of the times I would get the saying of, well at least you have a healthy baby. And I found that to be, like, pretty detrimental to my experience and it wasn’t very validating of what I went through.
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