On Sep 7th 2016, a young mother of two from Tobago, Trinidad, fell from the third storey of her home along with her newborn baby. Her sister indicated later that she was battling with post-natal depression.
Closer to home, a similar incident happened in 2015, whereby a new mother fell 16 floors to her death at her Bangsar South condominium, just 10 days after she gave birth to her first child. According to the husband, his wife had been under stress because she could not breastfeed her baby.
What we can see here is that post-natal depression is real and its side effects can be devastating, but the symptoms could be easily missed.
In this episode of Parentalk, we have Datuk Dr. Nor Ashikin, senior consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist, and founder and executive chairman of PrimaNora Medical Centre, as well as well Dr. Ooi Ben Syen who has many years of experience running a medical practice and confinement centre in Penang and KL.
They’re here to help us understand more about post-natal depression or PND in short, what are the prevention methods, and the treatments available in Malaysia.
With a background of empowering women through talkshows on all thing Womanhood, it was natural for Lily to start empowering women on one of the biggest role they carry (a mother) after having one of her own. As a millennial mum with 2 young boys herself, she understands what new parents are going through and seeks to empower, inspire and ease parents on their biggest adventure yet- Parenthood!
