{"id":70092,"date":"2025-05-03T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70092\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T03:18:16","slug":"full-time-father-suffers-from-postpartum-depression-feels-wasted-while-looking-after-new-born-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70092\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-time father suffers from postpartum depression, feels \u2018wasted\u2019 while looking after new-born baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 32-year-old father from Sichuan, China<\/a>, left his well-paid job to care for his baby daughter, Jasmine, who was born in May 2023.<\/p>\n

With both grandparents working elsewhere and no money for a nanny, he took over parenting. His job was more flexible than his wife\u2019s government post. Now, he earns by selling baby items online. But, the income is much less.<\/p>\n

Earlier, he made 20,000 yuan ( \u20b92.33 lakh) a month. Now, it is just 4,000 yuan ( \u20b946,500), according to the South China Morning Post. He shares his parenting life on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He shares his daily routine on social media under the name \u201cJasmine\u2019s Dad\u201d and has gained 11,000 followers.<\/p>\n

The man feels \u201cwasted\u201d while caring for his baby as a full-time father. According to him, the pressure from society, as well as from his family, is too much to handle.<\/p>\n

He wakes up at 6 am to Jasmine\u2019s cries. He makes her milk, changes nappies and plays with her for hours. In the evening, when Jasmine naps, he cooks and makes videos, per SCMP.<\/p>\n

The man hardly sleeps at night as Jasmine wakes every three hours. Carrying her caused joint pain.<\/p>\n

Once, Jasmine had pneumonia and was critical. He stayed at the hospital for five days without rest. But, both families blamed him.<\/p>\n

His wife, who came home only on weekends, often scolded him. She got angry if he had forgotten to change Jasmine\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n

Postpartum depression<\/p>\n

The stress caused fights, and they divorced. He says he now has postpartum depression<\/a>. However, not everyone is convinced.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are a father, not the one who had morning sickness, a C-section, sore nipples, or hormone changes. What do you have to be depressed about?\u201d SCMP quoted a social media user as commenting.<\/p>\n

Postpartum depression is a kind of deep sadness or worry that some parents feel after a baby is born. While it mostly happens to mothers, it may affect fathers as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old father from Sichuan, China, left his well-paid job to care for his baby daughter, Jasmine, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[1395,35085,105,35075,35083,218,35080,35078,35079,35081,35076,35072,35077,35073,35082,35084,10954,1757,16158,16,15,10955,35074,35086],"class_list":{"0":"post-70092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-china-us-tariff","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-impact-of-social-media","12":"tag-india-tariff","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-social-media-app","15":"tag-social-media-content","16":"tag-social-media-design","17":"tag-social-media-in-hindi","18":"tag-social-media-management","19":"tag-social-media-marketing","20":"tag-social-media-platform","21":"tag-social-media-post","22":"tag-tariff-china","23":"tag-tariff-meaning","24":"tag-tariff-news","25":"tag-trump","26":"tag-trump-tariff","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-us-tariff","30":"tag-what-is-social-media","31":"tag-what-is-tariff"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114441742239589471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}