Sharing your feelings with others
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Sadness can be anger turned in on itself and you shouldn't take sole responsibility for that. Share it with your partner or a friend and release those emotions. Babies benefit from a responsive, sensitive mum, so if your feelings are getting in the way, get professional help.
Chris Northam, a senior counsellor at Relate
By Chris Northam
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Neil Doherty, about 1 year
I'm a father who has just found out his daughter's been diagnosed with PND. I can see how your web page offers help to the sufferer's, and that's great, of course. But there is no advice here for close relatives. What can I do best for my daughter? She has a son of 5yrs come March, who is very intelligent. This is not grandparent bragging. My (2nd) wife is a Speech and Language Specialist who teaches at university, and when I told her how 'forward' my daugher had been as a child, she was, to say the least, highly sceptical, and thought I was 'parent bragging'. Now she has seen how my daughter's son was so forward - extremely so, for a boy, she says, as girls usually are more advanced than boys. He asked, for example, during his mother's pregnancy, "will you stop loving me when Samuel (they knew the baby's sex) is born?" I realise that such 'feelings' may occur for older kids, but to articulate them at the age of 4? Anyway. My question is, how can I help my daughter without making her condition worse? Any advice? Neil
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