But this was not what Shiku was feeling. In fact, she didn’t even want to clean the baby. She half-heartedly breastfed the baby and the experience was painful.
“I couldn’t breastfeed. I tried for one week and it just wasn’t happening. So we put the baby on formula milk almost right away. My first born essentially did not breastfeed,” she says.
For almost six months, she did not bond with the baby. Motherly instinct, she recalls, began kicking in after the six months.
She did not know yet but what she was experiencing was postpartum depression (PPD).