ABSTRACT
My first child was premature. He was born at 35 weeks with severe Hyaline Membrane Disease … He was in the hospital for five months; in the NICU for four months and in intermediate care for one month … The depression started around the time he was 3 or 4 weeks old … Up until that time, everything had been so urgent. He had had a couple of arrests. It was overwhelming. Suddenly my son was doing better. Why was I feeling so bad? I had difficulties going to sleep. I was up several times during the night. It was difficult to wake up in the morning. I didn’t want to do anything during the day except sleep and call the NICU to check in. I started not to eat well. I felt an impending sense of doom. The depression lasted about a month.
