Samantha Christine (Sam / SAMCFIT)

You know it's like I just want to keep them safe.

I knew I wasn't alone at the same time because I had heard so many people talk about it and I just like prayed it would just pass which it did.

And I got through it.

But I wish I had talked about it to people more because it would have been nice to not go through that alone.

At the same time, I was in a marriage that I wasn't happy in.

I didn't feel like I had the support that –

I had really wanted, I guess you would say nothing against him.

I just think that, you know, we weren't meant to be together long-term in that sense, which made any kind of situation like postpartum big life event hard, but that was hard.

And then I also dealt with like mastitis multiple times from breastfeeding.

And so it was just like a lot of things over a course of like eight weeks that just felt really dark that I wish I had reached out to more people and try to get that out.

Yeah.

Like, I guess, how do we like... So now, you know, being in this relationship I'm in now, it's such a, it really is such a healthy relationship.

And it's funny because I said that I would never have more kids and...

I think I told you earlier, like I had baby fever and want to do this with him just because of what we built.

I think that it would be a lot different this time around.

But I think talking about postpartum during pregnancy with your spouse, because so much of it's on pregnancy and then postpartum hits and you're like, holy cow, this is a lot.

And I think if we can talk to our significant other, our husband, our boyfriend, our partner, start talking about what postpartum might look like, what you think you might need.

Again, it's hard to tell when you're not in it, but just having the expectations of proper communication to follow is important.

And then husbands and boyfriends and partners to check in.

I think that's so important to check in every day.