Postpartum Crisis
Postpartum psychosis is rare, real, and life-threatening...here’s what happened when I met it face-to-face on the labour ward...
Until recently, I had only ever read about postpartum psychosis in textbooks, but yesterday, I met it face-to-face.
As Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week came to a close a few months ago, I found myself on call on the labour ward, where I was asked to assess a new mother experiencing what we quickly recognised as a severe perinatal psychiatric emergen…
