The thought of getting out of bed to care for the baby felt overwhelming for Leah.

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I think it was – yeah, really around Christmas time. That’s kind of when I had that episode where I just couldn’t get out of bed. I had just – I was really – I definitely think I had a lot of rage and anger like particularly like that was toward my husband. Because yeah, he was the one who was around the most Yeah, so probably when the baby was about three four months old. And like when I just felt I couldn’t get out of bed. I felt like every little task was just so overwhelming even like brushing my teeth. I’m like oh my – to work up the energy to go brush my teeth just seemed this huge mountain that I had to go over. Everything with the baby and everything with my toddler son. Yeah, every little task just seems so overwhelming.

That’s, that’s the symptom that I would say that lasted the most and for the most months that … Yeah, everything was just so overwhelming. How am I gonna get my son to daycare, towing the other one and taking the other one? And you know we need to run an errand I gotta take the two kids with me. Or how am I going to vacuum because my oldest son freaks with – he – like with little noises he has ear protectors that we just keep in our kitchen. Because if you’re gonna put on a hairdryer, a blender, a vacuum cleaner. So I just need to vacuum up this little thing but I – then I need to find the ear protectors to give to my other son and he’s gonna freak out. You know, yeah. And then once I started the medication, I could just – I’d still get overwhelmed and I was still tired, not just from parenting, but it was just OK, I know I can get these kids to school. We have a routine. Like I get – everything didn’t seem as, this big, huge task or is overwhelming. That was the biggest symptom I think that that followed me. Yeah.

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