Jodi Hillebrand

Two to three weeks, you know, you're on a euphoric high, right?

We go on adrenaline for a while, but then everything kind of catches up, right?

And then the next couple of weeks are rough.

And so that's kind of the baby blues, right?

And again, it's not necessarily sadness.

It's all these other things, right?

And sadness can be one, but that's the baby blues.

Now, if she continues to exhibit these symptoms...

beyond the six weeks then you know that is when it's time to see you know see a doctor talk about your feelings maybe get on some antidepressant or something like that um you know it does it's it's difficult though because it's you know the the drugs can take some time to kick in fully and women respond differently to different things we all respond differently to different medical

And it can take a little bit of time to figure that out.

But I always say that the placenta is the easiest, most natural, least side effects that you can do to get yourself on the right trajectory.

right because there's a strong correlation between um depression at day 14 and depression beyond that so if we can get through fatigue at day 14 and depression later on so if we and one of the things that it treats is fatigue so if we can keep her from getting so low you know i mean it's difficult to feel you know feel good you don't feel happy when you're exhausted and um

If we can help keep her from feeling that extreme fatigue, then maybe we can have some better outcomes later on too.

Right on.

Dave off some of that.

Well, hopefully they're going to learn that postpartum support matters, that we need to do a better job in supporting birthing people when they get home from the hospital or when they have that baby.

We just don't do a good job.

We don't provide practical support.

Everyone who wants to come see the baby, come see the baby, come help.

Do something practical for her.