When Love Is Lacking

A family can face a crisis as soon as the first child is born. Some mothers are unable to accept their babies and suffer a severe post-birth depression. Betty Moggs remembers the feelings of guilt and hopelessness that she experienced after the birth of her son. Belinda walked through the door of the ward to be met by a sea of eyes, some disinterested, some with a glimmer of hope and some lifeless. What on earth was she doing here? She could remember the journey by car with her husband and aunt. She could remember leaving her baby, with a feeling of deadness (if one cat* call deadness a feeling). Why had she felt no love towards the baby that she had been longing fof such a short time ago? She had tried to arous<j something of the mother-love she felt she should have had. Surely she must have had some while sb6 was still in the Maternity Hospital, otherwise sbe