post pregnancy depression

pregnancy is one of the most beautiful phase of life and a women feels blessed to undergo this phase.when a woman carries she has a certain picture of the baby in mind................happy,chirpy,bubbly baby and all the other good things that make you feel good about being a mother................about motherhood but..........nobody thinks of those sleepless nights, those howels and cries in the night when you yourself are in a miserable condition and if you have no one to help ..............you need to manage it all alone...............you are so busy and engrossed in the new member that you hardly get time to think anything else.You work like a machine from morning till night,you need to complete your chores when the baby is asleep and by the time you finish your chores your baby is awake .............hard to find time for a nap......................depression piles up........and the result is that you start loosing the charm of life...........sometimes becomes so seveere that sucidal tendencies build up inside u...............sometimes you feel that you will be insane soon sometimes the condition really becomes critical,goes out of control beyond medical assistance.The need is to understand the problem and to try to finish it at the point when it is detected............ your spouse and the other family members can be of great help and can avoid the situation or can help fighting the same if its born.......................