Postnatal Depression: How Common It Really Is (And Why You’re Not Alone)

Postnatal Depression: How Common It Really Is (And Why You’re Not Alone)

If you’ve had a baby and something feels quietly, persistently off, not the wobbly first-week tears but something that’s settled in and stayed, here’s a number worth sitting with. The Royal College of Psychiatrists estimates that somewhere between one in ten and one in seven mothers in England will experience postnatal depression in the year after giving birth. That’s tens of thousands of women a year, in this country alone, feeling exactly what you might be feeling right now.