{"id":552267,"date":"2026-03-22T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552267\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T01:07:08","slug":"my-postpartum-mental-health-meant-i-spent-five-months-on-a-mother-and-baby-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552267\/","title":{"rendered":"My postpartum mental health meant I spent five months on a mother and baby unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Sally Wilson works at Action on Postpartum Psychosis, a charity she said saved her life 11 years ago almost immediately after the birth of her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In my mind I had died. I was living in an afterlife and being punished for something that happened to my daughter,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At that point I was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was completely detached from reality. It was really scary and I was admitted to a general psychiatric ward and separated from my baby at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson said it took her &#8220;a long time to recover&#8221; although specialist care had improved since her experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We now have perinatal specialist teams in all the health boards in Wales,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a mother and baby unit in Swansea and there is a unit that&#8217;s just opened in Chester, which is a collaboration between NHS England and NHS Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson said there was still &#8220;plenty of work to be done&#8221; to raise awareness of the condition with expectant parents, the public, as well as healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Sally Wilson works at Action on Postpartum Psychosis, a charity she said saved her life 11 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-552267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}