Tamworth Post Natal Depression Support Group

Like most new parents, Lynne McIntyre wasn't getting much sleep. In fact, she wasn't sleeping at all. Nor was she eating or getting dressed or doing much of anything. Her level of anxiety was through the roof.

"One night I considered jumping off the top of my apartment building while my husband and baby slept," she tells ParentDish in an e-mail.

The next morning, she asked her husband for help.

Baby Jem was a few weeks old when his father, Adam Carpenter, turned to wife Vicki and confessed tearfully: 'I don't think I love him.'

He felt he was going through the motions and did not want to spend time with his son, writes Hilary Freeman.

Three years on and Adam, 35, a writer from Helston in Cornwall, is a devoted dad and now knows that he was suffering from a male form of the baby blues, or postnatal depression (PND).

A report published last week concluded that one in ten new dads may get the baby blues, with most cases undetected and untreated.
male PND

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