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I Had Extreme Postpartum Depression. Don’t You Dare Call It the Baby Blues.

When my daughter was born I had no idea I’d go from ecstasy to thoughts of cracking her head open and throwing myself out of a moving car. This dark side of motherhood needs to come out of the shadows.

Sharline Chiang
Dec 01, 2016
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