Experiencing a Postpartum High—Baby Pinks—followed by Postpartum Anxiety and Depression - Izzabella Moum

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And then she also really wants to talk about her experience with postpartum and having an initial postpartum high or baby pinks as she learned it was called

which was new to me. And that lasted for six weeks and then she experienced a significant drop in her mood. And so she talks about how she's been struggling

with mental health after that initial hi. All right, let's hear from Isabella. Hi, Isabella, welcome to the birth hour. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

Yeah, thank you. Before we get to your story, can you tell us a little bit about you and your family? Yeah, so me and my husband are both 22,

we're both cancers. I'm a stay-at-home mom and I like to bake and paint and just tinker around with things. Cool.

All right, so let's talk about your journey to getting pregnant. Yeah, so we decided in June that we wanted to start, we call it casually trying,

so we weren't tracking anything. I had a chemical pregnancy in August, so we were kind of like, well, we'll wait and we'll try again in October,

but it turns out that I got pregnant right after that. So in September, I tested at the end of the month and I got pregnant and we found out a few days before our five year anniversary, so that was kind of fun.

Then we waited and we told all of my family