For some women, postpartum depression can cast a long shadow over what they thought would be the happiest time of their life.
“I should be happy, why am I not happy?”, said Shalea Niles of Dorchester as she described how she felt after the birth of her third child. “It kind of put me in a space where it was depressive. . . and it’s been an up and down battle.”
“It could be like mourning,” she explained. “You might feel very sad about the person you were before, and that you can’t be that right at this moment in time because you have a baby and things have changed. Your lifestyle has automatically changed.”…