I had a baby and then I went mad: Laura couldn't wait to be a mother. But within days of her son's birth she had descended into a hellish spiral of paranoia and delusions
Daily MailI'm changing my two-week-old son's nappy. 'No, I hadn't heard of it either until it tried to kill me,' she writes 'Six years on, I'm somehow grateful for the illness,' Laura Dockrill writes. 'I didn't deserve this beautiful baby boy waiting for me to step up and be his mum,' Ms Dockrill writes of how she felt when nurses asked how she was feeling My unborn son was distressed, his scalp lacerated by the Victorian hook of torture and now there was meconium in the amniotic fluid, this presence of my son's first faeces a sign of his stress. I messaged friends with kids; 'It's hell,' they reassured, 'you won't sleep for the next 18 years — get used to it.' But I couldn't trust the professionals with this matter of confidentiality, so I'd stay awake, locked inside paranoid, delusional conspiracies, scheming about how I could escape Hugo with Jet.
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