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My Baby Sleeps. I Lie Awake Watching Her Breathe.

I am twenty-nine, and my daughter is four months old. She is our first child, born here in Jamalpur, and the whole house runs around her now. Everyone told me the first months would be tiring. Nobody told me about the crying. Mine, I mean. It comes over me while I am folding her clothes, while I am eating, sometimes for no reason I can name.

The nights are the hardest part. My daughter sleeps in stretches now, two hours, sometimes three. I do not. I lie beside her listening to her breathing, and if it slows I put my hand on her chest to feel it rise. Fear sits with me in the dark. If I fall into a deep sleep, I think, who will notice if something goes wrong with her? By morning I am wrung out. In the day I am short with my mother-in-law, then sorry about it for hours.

My husband watched this for weeks before he spoke. He said tiredness alone does not do this to a person. Our family doctor said the same, and told us a psychiatrist is a doctor whose work is troubles of the mind. That word was new in our house. One evening my sister held the baby, and my husband and I searched on his phone. We opened the DoctorBD24 listings of doctors in Jamalpur and looked for a doctor of that kind.

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My Baby Sleeps. I Lie Awake Watching Her Breathe.

She asked about the nights before anything else

The psychiatrist began with my sleep. She asked how a day goes in our house, who helps with the baby, and how I was before the birth. She asked about my health and the delivery reports we keep at home. My husband sat with us for the first part. I wanted him there.

Nothing was fixed in one sitting

She told me plainly: a mind worn down over months does not mend in a week. We would meet again at gaps she set, and some of that time is talking, working through the fear bit by bit. If anything in my body is feeding this, she said, another doctor should check that side first.

The medicine she wrote, and the rule I follow

At the second sitting she added a medicine. I take it exactly the way she wrote it, at the times she set, even on a steadier day. A calm day is not a signal to stop on my own, and stopping all at once can leave me worse. If it troubles me, my job is to tell her. The dose changes only when she changes it.

A different trouble took my cousin elsewhere

Searching that evening, we saw the site keeps each kind of doctor in a separate list. My cousin had a swelling in her belly that needs an operation, so her family looked at the general surgeons listed for Jamalpur. My trouble is of the mind, so we stayed with our own list.

Will she think I am a bad mother?

That fear sat in my chest on the way there. She did not judge me. She said many new mothers feel some of this, and coming to talk is doing right by the baby.

Why did she ask about my body and the birth?

She said the body and the mind are not separate houses. A body still healing, or something left over from the birth, can weigh on sleep and mood. If her questions point that way, she sends me to the right doctor.

Can my husband sit in every time?

He can, when I ask for it. Some sittings I may want him there, some not. What I say alone is not carried home to my family. She leaves that door in my hands.

When will I sleep through like before?

She gave me no date. Sleep may come back in pieces, the way it left. We look at the nights together at each sitting.

What if the crying comes back strongly between visits?

I should not endure it in silence until the next date. I can contact her sooner and say plainly what has changed.

What if I ever get thoughts of harming myself that feel hard to push away?

That is not something to carry alone for even one night. Tell someone in the house at once, and go to a hospital the same day. The same goes if night after night passes with no sleep at all and my thoughts keep racing. Or if I suddenly cannot manage washing, eating, or caring for the baby. Fear beyond my control belongs on that list too.

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