Bron Lewis - Is It Me or Postnatal Anxiety?
2/15/20261 hr 41 min
What do you do when your 3 day-old-baby just doesn’t wake up?
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Motherhood is really hard. And Bron Lewis isn’t afraid to talk about it (anymore).
Joining us in the Vulnerabilitea House, Bron answers the question ‘when was a time you genuinely needed help and were you able to ask for it?’, and recounts the worst week of her life.
Deals with the devil, post-natal anxiety, and post-natal depression, Bron is incredibl...
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First 90 secondsHugh van Cuylenburg· Host0:00
Bron Lewis, we are so happy to have you here.
Bron Lewis· Guest0:03
So I was, like, walking the streets with my newborn and she was just screaming into my chest. In this walk, I was just getting angrier and angrier 'cause no one warned me. And I saw this pregnant woman sitting at a bus stop, screamed, "This is really [beep] hard." [laughs] And she said, "I'm not pregnant," which wasn't great. [laughs] Now, Ari was born. I get home with him, and everything's great, and then on day three he didn't wake up. And my mom was there, and she, like, lifted up one of his eyelids and his eye rolled back.
Hugh van Cuylenburg· Host0:35
Oh my God.
Bron Lewis· Guest0:36
And she said, "You just need to go to the hospital right now." Hands down, the worst- Mm ... week of my entire life. And I made up 10 million deals with the devil when I was in there. It's like, "If you get us out of here and he wakes up, I will get off social media. I will play hide and seek with the kids every day." I went to the doctor, and I expected it to be really quick. "Do you think, um, that you are a good mother?" [sighs] And that just ripped the lid off my biggest fear. And I said, "No." And she said, "Well, I'm here to tell you that you are. But you're going through something harder than it needs to be, 'cause you've got postnatal anxiety, and it's very