{"id":88106,"date":"2025-05-09T19:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88106\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:07:16","slug":"it-was-torture-to-be-separated-from-my-new-baby-while-being-treated-for-psychotic-episodes-the-forgotten-gap-in-perinatal-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88106\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was torture to be separated from my new baby while being treated for psychotic episodes\u2019: the forgotten gap in perinatal care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nPostpartum psychosis affects up to two women in every 1,000 who give birth. Psychiatrists say Ireland is in dire need of a mother and baby unit with specialised care\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018When I finally got out of hospital, it took me months to build up a bond with her\u2019: Psychiatrists say Ireland is in dire need of a designated mother and baby unit for women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/yImages_1362924209.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018When I finally got out of hospital, it took me months to build up a bond with her\u2019: Psychiatrists say Ireland is in dire need of a designated mother and baby unit for women<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the week after she gave birth, Helena knew something wasn\u2019t right. It had been a traumatic delivery. In the weeks afterwards, she felt overwhelmed and suffered panic attacks \u2013 something she says others largely brushed off as the \u201cbaby blues\u201d, compounded by the sleep deprivation associated with new motherhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe message I got was basically, \u2018welcome to motherhood, this is what it\u2019s like, you\u2019re just tired\u2019. But I knew I wasn\u2019t myself, I just couldn\u2019t put it into words,\u201d she says. \u201cI was very suspicious of things and having very strange thoughts \u2013 I just knew that there was something very wrong with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpartum psychosis affects up to two women in every 1,000 who give birth. Psychiatrists say Ireland is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,28653,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-88106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-review-magazine","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479448317088172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88106","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=88106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}