‘I thought my baby was a monster’
Leading parent-child psychotherapist Dr Sue Lamb meets a group of mothers who are experiencing peri-natal attachment issues - they can’t bond with their baby.
Using play therapy, video techniques and psychotherapy she’ll unlock the problem over time, turning the relationships around, and in doing so she’ll give us a guide to the secret nuances of baby behaviour.
Baby blues, antenatal depression or baby behaviour, if left untreated, can damage the mother’s relationship with her children – and one in six women are known to be affected by mental distress during pregnancy or following childbirth.
Help Me Love My Baby follows two brave women who confront their fears, admitting they feel anger and resentment towards their babies, not a loving bond. Their journey is an emotional, but ultimately uplifting, one. Working closely with parent-infant therapist Dr. Amanda Jones, they unlock psychological clues, buried deep in their past, allowing them to repair the bond with their own babies. Along the way they learn to unlock the hidden code of baby behaviour that will help them forger a deeper bond with their child.
The fact that post-natal depression can create a ‘wall’ between mother and child is a difficult topic to confront. As Amanda says: ‘For a mother to express negative feelings towards her baby… it’s just a taboo. And it makes it very hard to ask for help. But in my experience mothers that I meet are grappling with very difficult and hostile feeling towards their babies, which they feel awful about.
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