PCOS, Fertility and Mental Health Care for Women - Cicle Health

Navya is a single mother of a beautiful girl. Today,  She shares her story of how she overcame Prenatal depression . The Beauty of Motherhood "I got pregnant at age 18 while I was studying at the university. When I saw the two pink lines, I immediately felt terrified. I was too young to be a mother. I was confused about what next to do. Telling my family was out of the option because my mum would have my head. I didn't know these thoughts would fester into something serious. Throughout the first trimester, I felt guilty. I thought of how I'd embarrassed my parents and how they might never forgive me. As time went by, pressure piled up and I started to get depressed and anxious. I didn't have enough money for antenatal and I still had not told my parents. I kept worrying about the condition the baby would be brought into. Everything made me sad and it became difficult to navigate through the day. In the sixth month, I started having suicidal thoughts. I kept thinking t...

Lalli Shantaram was only 18 when she got married to a man barely two years her senior. It was a typical arranged marriage in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, with as many as 200 people in attendance. Like is normal with most rural folk, they began asking her for a baby even before she completed a year of marriage. While she would initially shy away, facing the question became part and parcel of her life, for as long as three decades. And beyond a point, no one questioned. They taunted and reminded her she was “baanjh” ( infertile ). A Mother at 51 — Cicle Health While the first five years of her marriage were tough, it only got tougher with the passing of time owing to her inability to bear a child. When Lalli was about 26, her husband offered to adopt his elder brother’s son who was about seven years old then. Lalli, who had resigned to her fate, accepted the offer since it meant that she would have a child to call her own, and at the same time, she would have less advice and taunts coming her...