New mom reveals horrifying reality of postpartum depression - from overjoyed with pregnancy to 'wanting to stab' the baby READ MORE: Haunting update in case of Boston nurse who killed her children By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 14:49, 18 August 2024 | Updated: 14:49, 18 August 2024 e-mail View comments A new mom suffering from postpartum depression was so 'emotionally numb' after giving birth she wished she were dead and wanted to 'stab her baby to death.' The unnamed 30-year-old went to her local hospital four weeks after giving birth to her first child, a healthy baby boy.
The week before, she had called the facility and claimed her nipples were so painful and bloody she couldn't breastfeed her baby and was afraid it was preventing a mother-son bond. By the next day, she told her husband: 'I can't go on like this. I can't do this anymore.
I can't wake up feeling like this again.' An unnamed mother in New England, 30, suffered severe postpartum depression and OCD, leading her to have intrusive thoughts like stabbing her baby The patient was so overwhelmed and distressed she confessed to her doctors: 'The idea of being this baby's mother for the rest of my life is too much for me to handle. 'I don't want to do this now or for the rest of my life.
I wish I were dead sometimes.' The new mom, eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, is just one of millions of mothers who struggle with dark and intrusive thoug.