I have two boys, I had PND after the first and I was never really myself again until I had the second.

I also feel it is far more to do with your personal circumstances and history.

I also have a theory that it may have something to do with how much control you feel you have over your birth experience. With the first, I wanted a water birth, and after coming out of the pool to sleep overnight, my midwife would not allow me back in because she decided, with absolutely no consultation of my thoughts, that I had have a syntocin drip to speed things up. With my second, the midwife asked me my opinion on everything, starting with going through a birthing plan practically as soon as I had stepped into the labour ward, and it was all 'do you want me to do this' or 'can i examine you now' not 'you have to have this' 'we have to do that' like the first time around.

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