EP235 I Have My Baby, But I’m Not Happy: A Conversation About Post Partum Depression with Suzy Yatim Aslam

We tell ourselves we'll be so happy, sprinkled with butterflies and unicorns when our baby gets here, BUT there's a reality that some women live with that is quite the opposite. Join me for a real, raw, and at times hilarious conversation with Suzanne Yatim Aslam, author of Post Pardon Me, as we discuss the too often whispered about subject of post-partum depression. To learn more about Suzy check her out on Instagram, @suzyatimaslam, and you can purchase her book on Amazon. Transcript: Hey Gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you've got to have the mindset for it. It's time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe fertility journey BS to the curb. I'm your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility mindset master, former prosecutor and recovering type A control freak perfectionist. I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43, despite years of fertility treatment failure. I help women across the globe beat the odds on their fertility journey, just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine badassery, and loads of hell yes for your fertility journey. It's time to get fearless baby, fearlessly fertile. Let's do this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile podcast episode 235. I have my baby, but I'm not happy. A conversation about postpartum depression with Suzy Yatim Aslam. Loves, I'm so excited to be here with you this week because we are rolling up our sleeves and taking a really good look at a subject That I don't think it's talked about enough, generally, and more importantly, on the fertility journey. Because we kind of get into this place where we're like, look, I just want to have my baby. I'll worry about all that other shit later. But before we know it, that later becomes now. And Susie wrote this incredible book. It's called Post Pardon Me. It's readily accessible on Amazon and it's funny. It's Real, it's raw, it's at times dark, but like in a really smart and interesting way, really exploring this subject of women and dealing with a topic that can be so shrouded in shame and misunderstanding, misinformation. All kinds of stuff like that, like intentionally making women feel wrong for having some of the thoughts and feelings that come up at a time when you're supposed to be fucking happy, right? Like you got what you wanted, so shut the fuck up and don't be sad another day, right? That's this crazy Well, I have some ideas about where this comes from, but that's kind of a topic for a different episode. But we get ushered into this, or corralled is probably a better word, into this idea that, okay, I've been trying for so long that all my problems are gonna drop away. My life is gonna be perfect. There's going to be unicorns farting gold and bags of money falling from the sky as soon as my baby gets here. Now, of course, that's a bit of an exaggeration simply for illustration. However, we can kind of get into some thinking that is almost as magical as that on this journey, right? And we can shame ourselves for feeling, I don't know, maybe a little disappointed? Maybe a little different than what we expected? And so I really think that this conversation with Susie is, is a powerful one. That needs to be had and I know that, you know, you may be like, you know, I'm going to skip this episode until my day comes and then I'll listen to it. I'll have 40 weeks to listen to it. Well, I don't know about that. I think some of the points that Susie and I are raising and discussing in this conversation could actually really serve you on this journey as well. And on top of being a really smart woman, accomplished mom, entrepreneur, and all this other stuff, Susie is like a former Miss Arab America. She's smoking hot and like really cool. So, hey,