Rosie Smith opens up on postpartum anxiety as she appears on show with baby. Source: ITV
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00:00I'm okay now.
00:01Now?
00:01Yeah, now I'm okay. I think I knew a lot about, I think postpartum depression gets spoken about a
00:06lot.
00:07Yes.
00:07But I didn't really know about postpartum anxiety.
00:10Sure, it's common.
00:11Yeah, and I think a lot of people say, oh, your hormones are mental.
00:14Yeah.
00:14And you'll have all these feelings.
00:16Yeah.
00:17I think she's just done something.
00:18That's fine, that's fine, everyone's a critic.
00:20That's good.
00:21But, so yeah, I think there was-
00:22That's a good reflex.
00:22I was very sort of prepared to feel like, oh, I'm not good enough, I'm not doing well enough.
00:26Oh, you're doing fantastically.
00:28Yeah, I wasn't kind of prepared for like not feeling safe.
00:31Sure.
00:31And I thought that's not normal.
00:34It's normal. It is actually normal.
00:35Yeah.
00:35About 15% of women postnatally will feel anxious.