Rosie Smith opens up on postpartum anxiety as she appears on Lorraine show with baby Billie

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.