Hindsight Bringing Understanding
"And um, I don't know, I just feel like all around the whole process has just actually gotten me to a better place" (Erin) After Erin's third child, she knew she was not functioning as she did before and finally confided to a sister. "Ah, I think it was a fragile, slow ongoing process. I, well, it's taken me a long time to be able just to enjoy my son (Hannah). Hannah was able to be persistent with her doctors to be seen when she knew she did not feel able to care for her child the first 2 weeks after birth. "Time is a wonderful thing if you have it. Because I think it helps you to evolve and then you can look back and get perspective from the view of the future, so to speak (Irene).