Coping with Birth Trauma and Postnatal Depression

Lucy Jolin

Children are wonderful. That’s why we have them. But what about the negative feelings that are the flip side of motherhood? When you are bruised, battered or worse after the birth, and feel that life has been reduced to a cycle of feeding and changing; of lonely days and endless nights?

As many as 3 in 10 new mothers are affected by depression, so you are not alone – this book is written to help cope you with these feelings, and to enable you to make a happy and successful adjustment to motherhood. It will give you advice on how to come to terms with a traumatic birth and help you understand what postnatal depression is – and isn’t. You can learn to love your baby, even if you’re struggling to bond, and you can also come to terms with the new dynamics within your family and your relationship with your partner as you adjust to a different world, with a changed body and new priorities.

You can’t change society and its often-unrealistic expectations of motherhood, but with the help offered in this book you can come to feel more confident in your new role, and in your love for your baby.

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Mae plant yn wych. Dyna pam rydyn ni’n eu cael nhw. Ond beth am y teimladau negyddol sy’n rhan o’r ochr arall o fod yn fam? Pan fyddwch chi wedi mynd trwy’r felin ac wedi blino’n lan neu waeth ar ôl yr enedigaeth, ac yn teimlo bod bywyd wedi cael ei leihau i gylch o fwydo a newid clytiau; yn ddyddiau unig a nosweithiau diddiwedd?

Mae iselder yn effeithio ar gynifer â 3 o bob 10 mam newydd, felly nid ydych ar eich pen eich hun – mae’r llyfr hwn wedi’i ysgrifennu i’ch helpu i ymdopi â’r teimladau hyn, ac i’ch galluogi i wneud addasiad hapus a llwyddiannus i fod yn fam. Bydd yn rhoi cyngor i chi ar sut i ddod i delerau â genedigaeth drawmatig ac yn eich helpu i ddeall beth yw a beth nad yw iselder ôl-enedigol. Gallwch ddysgu i garu eich babi, hyd yn oed os ydych chi’n cael trafferth bondio, a gallwch hefyd ddod i delerau â’r ddeinameg newydd yn eich teulu a’ch perthynas â’ch partner wrth i chi addasu i fyd gwahanol, gyda chorff sydd wedi newid a blaenoriaethau newydd.

Ni allwch newid cymdeithas a’i disgwyliadau afrealistig o fod yn fam, ond gyda’r help a gynigir yn y llyfr hwn gallwch ddod i deimlo’n fwy hyderus yn eich rôl newydd, ac yn eich cariad at eich babi.