Being unable to meet her own expectations for keeping the house clean and organized made Karmin feel like she was failing.

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I kind of felt like my depression and anxiety would get better once I had my baby because I figured that when they – when I had her, like, she would be, like, safe in my arms. But she – it just kind of – I – my mood disorder didn’t go away when she came, like, it almost – it got worse pretty well. But I felt like I had the expectations of, you know, I have to have a clean house, I have to have a spotless house. Like, my baby has to be happy and napping. I have to be doing all the cooking and cleaning. Like, but I also expected my partner to help out with that stuff. But when he didn’t it was – when he didn’t I felt like it was falling onto me, and with following – falling on me and me not doing it I had a lot of feelings of, like, failure to living up to – because, like, when you look on social media, like, there’s a lot of moms out there that have – they – they portray that they have a perfect clean house, and so you’re like, how can you do all that and have your baby? And trying to figure out breastfeeding and stuff like that. I had a lot of issues with that, and had a lot of lactations consultants and stuff come through.

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