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Mood after birth

Shieva Ghofrany: [00:00:00] Okay, fast facts about mood in that immediate postpartum period. I love that we talk about postpartum depression more and more because we should highlight that, and I don't wanna say normalize it because we don't want it to be normal, but we know that it's common, so we should commonalize it. I say, right, we should let it be known that it's an entity so people can get healed. 

All that said, in an effort to highlight postpartum depression and make women feel okay talking about it, I think we've created a, a world. where anything less I'm pure happiness is labeled depression. The opposite of happiness. Is not depression, the opposite of happiness. I don't know what it is, but the truth is that when you've just had a baby, your hormones are up and down and liability is very common. 

I say to every woman before they're gonna go home. Don't be shocked if one minute you are like this. Is the most divine thing on earth, and then two seconds later you're like, . So please do not conflate the fact that your mood is up and down with postpartum depression. There are variations. It might be depression, but you should talk to your doctor and don't assume that any level of up and down is terrible.