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Suggest Remedy For Post Natal Depression

Good day, Im a mother of a 10 month old baby. My baby have never been sleeping trought the night, Im constantly awake, and is starting to feel so tired. Im so drained that it is starting to effect my mood. Im almost always depressed. And I think Ive got a hormone inbalnace as well, one day Im ok, other days Im not. Me and my husband have not been going out at all, there is no time to spent with eachother, and this has a effect on my marriage as well. I never suffered form post natal depression. And had a wondeful pregnancy, just dont feel like myself anymore, my husband recently were diagnosed with epilepsy, and this also had a effect on us, he needs a good nights rest every night, and cant really always help me with baby. Sometimes it feels like Im there for all the work and no play! Do I need a anti depressant?
Mon, 6 Apr 2015
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns

I went through your details. You should first address your baby. Your baby is not sleeping at night primarily because the infant is sleeping at day. An sleeps almost 20 hours in the first month, 16 to 18 hours in the second month and so on. By the time the infant reaches the month of 10, his sleep pattern reduces to 14 hours and it happens mostly at night. Day time sleep reduces to around 4 hours mainly due to playing and activities.

Here, your child lacks sleep during night because it sleeps during day! That shows lack of training. Train your child to sleep during night and keep him awake during day. May take some time, but child will learn.

You had post natal depression. The current scenario stresses you and some of the depression symptoms do come back. Change the pattern of his sleep and the symptoms disappear.

If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible.

Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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Suggest Remedy For Post Natal Depression

Dear Welcome to HCM We understand your concerns I went through your details. You should first address your baby. Your baby is not sleeping at night primarily because the infant is sleeping at day. An sleeps almost 20 hours in the first month, 16 to 18 hours in the second month and so on. By the time the infant reaches the month of 10, his sleep pattern reduces to 14 hours and it happens mostly at night. Day time sleep reduces to around 4 hours mainly due to playing and activities. Here, your child lacks sleep during night because it sleeps during day! That shows lack of training. Train your child to sleep during night and keep him awake during day. May take some time, but child will learn. You had post natal depression. The current scenario stresses you and some of the depression symptoms do come back. Change the pattern of his sleep and the symptoms disappear. If you require more of my help in this aspect, please use this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible. Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications. Good luck.