An interview with your host Vanessa, on pregnancy and postpartum depression

In this episode my husband guest stars as the host interviewing me on our two pregnancies, the lasting trauma that can come about from a difficult birth experience, and the horrors of postpartum depression and anxiety. TRIGGER WARNING: if you are pregnant or planning on getting pregnant, this may be an episode you should skip. It gets a little graphic, I did NOT have an ideal experience, and knowing what I went through won’t do you any good while you are pregnant- it will likely only freak you out and I don’t want to do that. But if you have just gone through childbirth or postpartum, or you are the partner of someone who is, I hope this episode helps you. You are not alone. And by identifying the maelstrom of foreign emotions going through me as postpartum depression, I was able to get the help I needed.