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Lindsay Clancy & the 13 Medications Prescribed to Her: 48 Hours of No Sleep After New Med

If you ever feel the urge to occupy yourself entirely with learning about the directionality of stroller wheels, is it an all-wheel-drive baby stroller? There’s dense literature on Reddit parenting forums. You’ll come out more educated on strollers, and equally confused about which one to buy. But that’s surface-level content. It gets much deeper. You might stumble on posts asking whether it’s normal to hear cries that aren’t really there in the middle of the night: phantom cries. They used to call it “insanity of lactation.” Now it’s postpartum psychosis, a rare, severe condition distinct from postpartum depression. Postpartum depression is more common, affecting about one in eight people who give birth. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two per 1,000 births. Depression can mean persistent sadness, anxiety, and exhaustion. Psychosis can involve hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized behavior, and it can be intermittent, hidden behind long lucid periods.