Mirian felt better after connecting with other new parents in the community.

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And I was able to go out more with my baby. That’s when I think I started to feel better. You know? To feel like I could do activities with my baby, and I could maybe make friends with their babies. And in that regard, I absolutely loved the neighbourhood where I was living because it had a lot of community centres where I could go and do meetings with other moms – with their babies. Sometimes there was the eventual dad with his baby. And we would go to each other’s home. We would go to parks together. You know? Like, we would go to museums and picnics. And I was really able to make friends, like, go, you know, go to the swimming pool. And so, I think that was very therapeutical in the sense that I was able to see people, talk to people, you know, have my baby, play a little bit with other babies his age. I don’t know if play is the right verb because he was only three months at that time. [Laughter] And then little by little I started to feel better.

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