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Nov 2022
26m 13s

Post Partum Psychosis

Metro
About this episode
It's more than just the "baby blues".

Yvette chats to Catherine Cho, Author of A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness, all about her experience of perinatal mental health issues which she had after giving birth to her first child. 

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