I thought Brooke Shield’s Down Came The Rain was an unflinchingly honest account of postpartum depression. I can’t imagine being so forthright about such a nightmare.
Although I didn’t dislike her, I wasn’t sure I wanted her living with us.
The emotional expectations for first time mothers are disproportionately romantic. I deeply appreciated her candor: the rationalizations, the reluctance to medicate, the slow rebalancing of life. This book is a beautiful and honest description of the emotional landscape of postpartum depression.
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