PTSD After Childbirth...

Do you have flashbacks or nightmares about your baby’s birth? Do avoid your baby because he/she reminds you of your traumatic experience? Are you having fantasies about hurting the baby, or yourself? Do you have difficulty concentrating? Are you unusually irritable, angry or depressed? Then you may have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from your childbirth experience. But you are not alone! What you are going through is real, and there is hope for healing. Don’t give up!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

StoryCorp Wenatchee: Heidi and Elora Kloss-Nobel

Heidi Koss-Nobel was interviewed by her daughter, Elora. Heidi suffered postpartum depression after Elora's birth and feels it impacted her daughter as a baby.

Posted: Wednesday, Septemeber 9 ,2009

For many women, motherhood is a time of new discoveries, excitement and feelings of love so deep it is hard to describe. It is also a time of sleepless nights, lifestyle adjustments and enormous responsibility. Sometimes the experience is made difficult by postpartum depression as in the case of Heidi Koss-Nobel. She was interviewed by her 14-year-old daughter, Elora, about her postpartum depression in today’s Storycorps Wenatchee.

Elora: “So mommy, how was your life after having me?”