Louis Theroux Meets New Mothers Battling Severe Mental Illness After Pregnancy

Seeing this must be very helpful for mothers who are going through it.

I’ve noticed this in his other documentaries, but Louis is so good with kids. He’s got a great sense of how to talk to kids and he’s got a real knack talking to them.

The sheer astonishing event of birth also brings us to a new perspective on the fragility and moment-to-moment awareness of how quickly life can be over. Sometimes this frightens & overwhelms us, all the unknowns, responsibilities, hormonal tidalwaves, and delicate balance that exists within ourselves.

The poor woman with the 3 kids needs a nanny !!!!.. & I hope she doesn’t have any more

Heartbreaking for the mother and the children. Thank god there is help.

What a beautifully done documentary———so crucial a subject. These families are brave and noble to share these dark, yet hope filled days with you ———obviously a wonderful father yourself who engenders genuine open hearted ness and kindness ———God bless all of you involved in the creation of this.🕊💙🕊🩷🕊💙🕊🩷🕊💙🕊🩷🕊💙🕊🩷🕊💙🕊

I am so terrified I won’t like my kids. But thats what therapy is for 🤷‍♀️

For some reason, the first time i was pregnant i was really afraid that i was pregnant with a dwarf. I was so afraid that i was going to have a child who had an obvious life difficulty, and be conciously aware of it everyday. Sometimes i would cry about it! Like i was afraid that i wouldn't know how to make my child feel happiness and strength. So to counteract my negative thoughts i would think about the burden Mary must have felt bearing the Savior of mankind. And with with thought experiment i imagined that if I had God in my belly, would I ever yell at at God? Or be away from God? And then i read Dr. Sears book about attachment parenting, i probably went a little overboard. I think that when you have mental problems, you just need to put that focus somewhere else. Like instead of having anxiety that my baby was a dwarf, anxiety that my baby was God. Both are stressful. Both made me feel like i needed to try really hard. Hard enough that i waited 10 years before i had another child. And that worked for me, i got to enjoy them both so much.

Love all British documentaries.

Sorry, but I worked with special needs children for over 30 years and it makes my heart hurt that someone would end a pregnancy because of Down syndrome.

Being a man I can’t understand but I could only imagine how much stress it has to be on the body and mind carrying then delivering a baby child birth is the most amazing thing humans do much love to these women glad there is places like this to help them ❤

While I love that they are focused on the mom and baby's health, some of these men are driving these women to madness. They sit and watch these women struggle with a newborn, while making them do housework and take care of the family (*side-eyeing Jordi). I had a friend who was in a center like this one in Switzerland for 2 mths, and her dumbass partner has not made her life easier since she's returned.

Louis Theroux lowkey being a better psychologist than some of the ones at the hospital

In the u.s what is there for moms. We need to advocate for this.

This is an incredibly important subject to research and discuss