The first two weeks of motherhood were great for first-time mum Kirsty. Despite the stressful experience of going through an induced labour and needing a C-section, she described the fortnight that followed as being in her own "bubble" with her baby girl Isla.
But in the weeks that followed, Kirsty began to experience postnatal depression and said things got "rough" as she navigated her new life with a little one during the Covid pandemic.
"You don't feel like you're bad - in your head you're feeling fine," said Kirsty Price, 31, from Cwmavon. "It was the fact that I could not give her to anybody. I couldn't leave other people to give her a bottle or change her nappy. If she was crying with someone else I'd be going nuts and asking 'why is she crying what's happened?'. It was the panic and anxiety if she was out of my sight. That to me was normal, I thought I was just being protective but it was affecting me mentally because I couldn't go anywhere, I didn't want to do anything," she explained.
