Both of my children were extremely poor sleepers in infancy. My daughter still wakes up in the middle of the night. Everyone has this advice and that advice about how to get children to sleep, but none of it worked for us. In the end, we were sleep deprived for very long periods of time, and we both became very seriously depressed. When we started to sleep again, our moods improved.

It's ridiculous to toss guesses out into the Internet like talking heads on Fox News, but for the purposes of educating people who may find themselves in a similar situation, someone can easily become suicidal through post-partum depression, and it can affect both men and women. There are various risk factors, one of which is sleep.

Combined with health issues that can occur during birth (and a 9month spell of vomiting all day everyday), exactly the same here. Some things are worse, but the depression is lifting now, 2 years on. Proper sleep is so important.