{"id":181333,"date":"2024-09-26T11:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-confronting-the-realities-of-post-natal-depression\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:37:48","slug":"zimbabwe-confronting-the-realities-of-post-natal-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-confronting-the-realities-of-post-natal-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Confronting the Realities of Post-Natal Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Wednesday, April 26, 2023, will forever be etched in my heart as the most precious day of my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">I stood beside my wife Sharon, in the labour ward, her hand clasped tightly in mine, as we both prepared to welcome our daughter into the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;We are almost there, Sharon. Just one more push,&#8221; the nurse encouraged her. Sharon gathered every ounce of strength, and our little princess arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">I can&#8217;t explain the flood of emotions when I held her for the first time&#8211;tiny, delicate, and ours. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409250198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 26, 2023, will forever be etched in my heart as the most precious day of my life. I stood beside my wife Sharon, in the labour ward, her hand clasped tightly in mine, as we both prepared to welcome our daughter into the world. &#8220;We are almost there, Sharon. Just one more push,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,26401,6567,257,45864,7114,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confronting","tag-depression","tag-news","tag-postnatal","tag-realities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}