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When Motherhood Hurts: The Silent Pain We Don't Talk About Enough

My favourite aunt had it. I was young back then but I could tell. At first, I thought she hated her child, she didn't want to have anything to do with her. It got really bad that she couldn't breastfeed the child. She didn't bathe her either. I saw my uncle bathe the baby from when she was 3 months old till when she was 8 months old. After several years now, I see her and her child twinning. Matching clothes, laughing, inseparable. It was then I realised that something was wrong then. She didn't hate her child. She was drowning. Thank God her husband was a medical doctor, he understood her and wore her shoes when it was hurting her the most. A similar case happened in church where a woman with a baby started misbehaving. She was biting the baby. Thank God that it was in a church where people were present. They took the child from her, and also took her for medical care.  If no one was there, the child could have died and we'd blame the woman. If you must...