Please help, think my wife is suffering from PND... what can I do to help.

[damodad]

Can anyone give me some advice.
My wife gave birth to my DS 7wks ago, she is at her parents house this week as I thought she could do with a break. I have returned to our house for the week (we live 150 miles away from our families, I'm in the Navy)

She has been feeling steadily more and more depressed and looking at a website detailing the symptoms I think she has PND.

Now I am stuck down here all week and she is ringing me in tears saying how down she is and how she can't cope.... I feel a bit useless. Her family have tried to be helpful, but to be honest I don't think they know what to do.

She has no internet access where she is so I just need some advice both for me and anything I can pass onto her until I can get back up there on the weekend.

I have told her to ring HV tommorow so hopefully that will help but anything else you can think of will be useful !

calling damodad, how are things going? you could print off this thread for your wife to let her know she is not alone! hoping all the advice has been of help. Virtual cuddle to you both.

Just a quick update. DW went to her own doctor who gave her another course of beta blockers, he also put her on the waiting list for counseling. She has had a blood test and we are waiting for the results.

She has been feeling much better over last week although she does occasionally slip back but things are generally on the up. I think purly the fact that she has been to the doctor and started to take some positive steps to help herself has helped.

Also our DS has started to smile and respond makes things feel better, less of an endless round of feeding and changing. He is also sleeping through most nights so sleep has returned to our house ! which is probably the biggest help... being tired all the time can be depressing in itself.

Again, thanks to all of you who have helped on this thread !