LOS ANGELES -- Norma Fabian Newton had heard of other new mothers experiencing the "baby blues," short-term sadness and anxiety. But when she had her first child in her early 30s, she described her experience as a "constant barrage of thoughts."
"I was constantly thinking, 'I'm not equipped to be a parent, I hate myself, or I hate this decision,'" she said.
"In so many ways I had everything, and yet I felt so empty and so low."