Why did you both have another baby after dealing with perinatal mood disorders?
• Kelly: Because my heart told me so. I survived a truly rough journey to get to where I was and felt a void in my heart and in our family. My heart and life would not have felt complete without Paige. I simply would not let my experience limit my hopes and dreams. • Carolyn: That’s an interesting question and one that I struggled with mightily, but the truth is that my answer is similar to Kelly’s. My heart told me so too. I always imagined myself with two children and despite how much I loved Zachary and wanted for my family to be complete with the three of us, it just wasn’t. It did, however, take a lot of soul-searching to get to the place where I was ready. That soul-searching also included talks with my doctors and social worker. We all collectively came to the place that because we now had a good handle on my medication metabolization problems, that even if I did get PPD again, we could deal with it much more effectively. I firmly believe that would have been the case had Joshua
