This week, she meets Siobhan Weldon, who shares her experience of postnatal depressionI met Siobhán Weldon in St Anne’s Park, Dublin. Statistics say that between 10 and 15pc of Irish mothers will have postnatal depression, however it’s thought that figure is actually much higher, as many cases go unreported. Photo by Ruth Medjber“It’s so lonely and isolating but I just felt so inadequate, so unprepared for how to care for them. “It’s like all the worst things you think about yourself and all the worst things you think other people might think about you. To ask them honestly and outright “do you think you might be depressed?” when you think things are a bit off.

Source: Irish Independent February 27, 2026 07:03 UTC