Hello there lovelies, how are you? Today is Thursday so I'll be going to share with you a heartbreaking throwback story from my mother-in-law. This story was shared to me last year by my partner's mom. I just suddenly remember the story was because last night while I was typing my content I accidentally took a glimpse to my partner's phone. My partner was scrolling in his phone when he came across to a Vedio that originally posted in Tiktok.

The vedio contains a new mom with her baby. The mother looks like it was already lifeless while lying beside her child. The vedio was just too short but base on the caption, the new mother suffer from postpartum relapse, binat in our own dialect. Relapse is very common to all new mom's, and this is also the cause why my niece died just this year.

But anyway today my discussion is more on postpartum psychosis as this is also related to all new mothers.

Postpartum psychosis is a serious mental health illness that can affect someone soon after having a baby. It affects around 1 in 500 mothers after giving birth.

Many people who have given birth will experience mild mood changes after having a baby, known as the "baby blues". This is normal and usually only lasts for a few days.

But postpartum psychosis is very different from the "baby blues". It's a serious mental illness and should be treated as a medical emergency.

It's sometimes called puerperal psychosis or postnatal psychosis.

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So the story was originally came from my mother-in-law's co-worker. She said that her niece kill's her own baby by drowning it inside the tab, as it was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

The beginning was, the parents of the child got separated. When the guy find out that he makes his girlfriend pregnant he run away. According to the aunt, the guy even wanted her niece to have an abortion as they still young and they still can't afford to support the baby's needs, but her niece didn't agree. She cannot kill her own child as she felt scared with the karma. Because of it the guy chooses to run and never saw her again. The girl suffer from depression as she didn't expect that her boyfriend would do that to her. According to my mother-in-law's co-worker her niece even tried to kill herself, because of the pain that she gets from her boyfriend.

With some moral support they convinced her to remain strong for her baby, and so her niece slowly recover. Her niece remains strong and remains positive for her baby and luckily she give birth to a healthy baby boy last October 2020.

The aunt was happy as a new member of the family was added to their family. However since the aunt needed to work for them, most of the time only the girl and baby was being left at home. Before she left home she always make sure that her niece has food to eat and the baby is already clean as she don't want the mom to do anything to avoid unnecessary incidents while she was working outside.

Unfortunately without her proper attention, she didn't realize that her niece is having a hard time being alone at home. She also find it hard to adjust in motherhood. The new mom also can't tell to her aunt that she's having a hard time as she don't want to be her aunt's burden, and so the aunt thought's that everything was just okay.

But then one time while the aunt was sleeping she suddenly hear that the baby was crying. She thought that it was just hungry, and since she knew that the mother was with him she just didn't mind it and just try to go back to sleep. However after 10 minutes, she notice that the baby didn't stop from crying and so she went out to check them, and she got furious when she saw the baby was lying inside the tub with water inside their toilet.

She immediately grab the baby and bring it inside their room to make it dry. From inside she saw her niece sitting at the corner of their room feeling unaware with what's happening around her. After she dry the baby she grab the mom and asked her what's happening to her but the mom didn't say anything. It only lay down beside her child and close her eyes so the aunt just went back to her room and go to sleep.

The aunt didn't thought that her niece will gonna kill her own child as sometimes it was okay. She sometimes saw her playing with the baby, and it literally takes care of it like a responsible and loving mom.

Unexpectedly the nightmare of their lives came.

According to my mom's co-worker when she came home after their work their house was filled with silence and the lights was still off. However she only thought that her niece was just sleeping so she just didn't mind and went to her room to change her clothes. Then she suddenly noticed that the water from their toilet is open so she went out from her room and went to the toilet as she was about to close the water, but she got so furious and shocked as she saw that her grandchild was floating inside the tab, and it was already lifeless.

She immediately grab the baby while she was crying in hell because of what happen to her grandson. Her niece was inside her room and it didn't even say anything when it saw her child lifeless. She even slap her niece, as it shows no emotion after what happen but it remained silent.

The baby died on his own Mother's hands because of postpartum psychosis.

Authors epilogue;

According to my mother-in-law's co-worker, after they burries the baby she bring her niece to the hospital as she noticed that there are times that it do shout while looking for her dead child. Sometimes she can hear her niece talking like she's still have her baby beside her.

When she brings her niece to the doctor, she was told that her niece was suffering from postpartum psychosis and it badly needed a proper medication and attention to get healed.

Message;

If you knew and you have a new mother at home please take care of them and understand if they have some mood swings. They just needs someone to understand them and they just want to feel being loved and cared.

To all Mother's out there specially those who were being neglected by their boyfriends/husband's, please do help your self and don't stress yourself too much to avoid depression. Remember that your child's needs you most and so you have to be strong for both of you. You are beautiful and preciouse.

Thank you for reading.

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