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Women share experiences with perinatal anxiety and depression to help others reach out

When Lauren Fisher was pregnant, she felt like she was "talked about" instead of talked to.

She and her partner Alex, went through IVF to have their child, and Ms Fisher had a "difficult pregnancy and a difficult birth" and "negative experiences" in the hospital system.

"When my baby was really young, she couldn't sleep, and I went in desperate for help and sort of got told that she wasn't sleeping because of what I was doing, so it was my fault," she says.

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