Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support
Briefly

O rlaith Quinn was an outgoing, vivacious mother of two until halfway through her third pregnancy, when she became uncharacteristically withdrawn.She raised her anxiety in checkups, but doctors told her this was normal.When she became manic after giving birth and told her family she had tried to kill herself three times, she was assessed by a psychiatrist who determined she was not a suicide risk.Quinn had developed postpartum psychosis, which has good recovery rates, but an inquest determined earlier this year that her death in late 2018 at Belfast's Royal Jubilee maternity hospital was both foreseeable and preventable.
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