**Trigger Warning** In this episode we discuss topics including sexual abuse, eating disorders and miscarriage

In our second episode of Motherhood Confessions we're anonymously interviewing a beautiful Mother and listener who has shared her personal and honest experience of parenting with us.

This week's Mum tells us she experienced a challenging pregnancy which included being diagnosed with HG. After the birth of her daughter she was diagnosed with postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, with compulsions centering around sexual abuse.

The HG diagnosis was so severe that she was required to go to hospital each morning for a scan to check that bub was ok due to lack of nutrients being delivered to the baby. After what was a slightly traumatic birth this Mum took her baby daughter home and started having intrusive thoughts around sexual abuse that quickly became obsessive.

She was eventually able to seek help and was put on mental health watch for postpartum OCD. Four years on she is now a career woman, an amazing Mother to her daughter, and has paid some of her friends to remind her to never fall pregnant again!

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