Interview with Orna Donath, author of “Regretting Motherhood: A Study.”
04:39 min
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Trigger Warning: This video contains content about postpartum depression and suicidal ideation. Year One is an award-winning documentary about identity, postpartum depression, and the first year of motherhood made by new mom and Brooklyn filmmaker Erin Bagwell.
We see the rosy pictures of motherhood, but there is another side to it that not many people talk about.
When a baby is born, so is a mother—but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression.
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