Two Doctors on the Hormonal Cliff, the Fourth Trimester, and Being an Okay Parent

Shireen and Mythili walk through what happens to a woman's body and brain in the first weeks after birth. Estrogen levels drop fifty to one hundred times. The cliff is sheer. The brain rewires. Skin changes. Hair sheds. Mood flattens or spikes or both in the same hour. Then the numbers. 80% of women will have some kind of blues. Around 19% will have a depression that lasts longer than two weeks. 1% will move into postpartum psychosis. The 1% needs medical intervention. Everyone else needs something else. They walk through what that actually looks like. The person you call who isn't going to give you advice or judgement, just space to rant. The partner who's trying to help. The other moms who get it. Then Mythili lands the line. Good enough is enough. It's okay to be an okay parent. You're not going to mess up so badly that we cannot rectify things.