BXBX NOVEL Chapter 681 - Postpartum Depression
Anya fell asleep in Aiden\'s arms while waiting in the corridor in front of the ICU.
Aiden carried her slowly, not wanting to wake her and took her to the VVIP room to rest. After that, he asked his bodyguards to stand guard in the ICU and notified them that something had happened.
Anya slept until ten in the morning. When she opened her eyes, she found her mother lying in the bed next to her. She immediately smiled seeing her mother there.
"Aiden..." she called softly.
Aiden immediately approached Anya and helped her to wake up from sleep. She gave a glass of warm water to his wife. "Drink this first, so that your throat won\'t hurt. Mother\'s condition has improved and she can move to a normal room."
Anya accepted the glass and drank it right away. Her throat felt dry from crying all night. Her body also felt weak and a little warm.
Aiden held Anya\'s forehead to check her temperature. "You have a fever. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Does your body hurt?"
"My chest is a bit hurt," said Anya. She recently gave birth and was still breastfeeding so that her chest felt swollen and uncomfortable.
"The doctor said you have acute mastitis. Maybe your fever is also caused by inflammation. The doctor has given drugs to relieve the inflammation. In the meantime, you can\'t breastfeed just yet," said Aiden.
Anya was immediately disappointed to hear this. "Besides failing to be a good child, it seems like I also failed at being a good mother. I don\'t have enough milk for my children. And now…"
"Anya, don\'t think too much about it. It\'s very natural that you don\'t have enough milk because you gave birth to twins. Maybe your mother\'s condition makes you depressed and stressed so that you have acute mastitis," Aiden stroked Anya\'s back. "If you don\'t get treated right away, the inflammation can get worse."
Anya turned her head, looked at her mother sadly. Right now, she couldn\'t leave her mother alone. But she also missed her two sons.
"Alright," at this time, she could not leave the hospital in peace if her mother was still unconscious. She also couldn\'t bring her two sons back to the city because of their weak condition.
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One week later, Anya\'s inflammation was getting better, but she couldn\'t produce breast milk anymore.
She could no longer breastfeed.
"Aiden! Did you tell the doctor to give me the injection so I can\'t breastfeed anymore?" Anya felt so angry when she realized that she could no longer produce breast milk.
"Don\'t blame Aiden. It was me who asked the doctor to do it," Indah immediately stepped forward to defend Aiden.
Anya looked at her mother in tears. "Mother, why are you doing this?"
"I love you so much and I can\'t see you continue to suffer like this. So…" Indah couldn\'t help crying either.
Anya was very worried for her two sons and now she couldn\'t breastfeed anymore. But it was impossible for Indah to do all this on purpose without thinking about Anya\'s kindness.
She knew that everything her mother did was because she was worried about her, so Anya couldn\'t blame her.
"Anya, don\'t blame your mother. She is very worried about your situation. We are already looking for wet nurses for Arka and Aksa. We have also made sure that Arka and Aksa get clean and healthy breast milk," Galih tried to cheer her up.
Anya found it difficult to accept it. But it was true that after stopping breastfeeding, the inflammation got better.
After returning to the city, Anya spent all of her time in the hospital accompanying her mother. During the day, Aiden would return to the office and at night he would accompany Anya to the hospital.
Anya didn\'t know what to do. She could no longer breastfeed her children and now her mother was still unconscious.
Since there was nothing she could do, Anya felt even more stressed and confused.
Nadine suggested Anya go back to work so that she could divert her mind.
Aiden knew that Anya was in a dilemma. She missed her two sons but was also worried about Diana. If she continued to stay in the hospital and think about all these problems, Aiden was worried that his wife would experience postpartum depression.
He immediately ordered someone to remodel the VVIP room, making a partition using glass and creating a mini perfume room for Anya.
That way, Anya could work and still see her mother\'s condition.
Anya tried to keep herself busy every day. When she wasn\'t working, she would sit by her mother\'s bed and report all the work she did today.
She told Diana what perfume she made today and all of its ingredients in detail.
Christmas Eve arrived in the blink of an eye, but Diana still didn\'t wake up. All members of the family came and visited her. After they all returned home, finally Anya and Aiden were left alone.
"Anya, mother is still not awake. How about we take Arka and Aksa back to town after mom wakes up? If they are brought home now, I\'m afraid you will be tired because you have to go back and forth between home and the hospital," Aiden said cautiously.
Anya was surprised and immediately turned to look at him. "You promised me that Arka and Aksa can come home for Christmas. How can you break your own promise? I can only see them from the video call. I really miss them."
"If you miss them, we can go back to the island to spend Christmas with them there. At the time of the new year, we will return to the city to celebrate with mom. How about it?" Aiden asked softly.
"Not! Aiden, why didn\'t you keep your promise?" Tears streamed down Anya\'s face.
Aiden immediately took her into his arms. "Don\'t cry. I\'m just suggesting. If you disagree, I\'ll find another way."
"I don\'t know what to do. Mother hasn\'t woken up yet. I-I…" Anya sobbed, her tears kept falling. She couldn\'t continue, but Aiden knew that she was very sad right now.
Although Aiden didn\'t want to admit this fact, he knew that Anya was experiencing postpartum depression after giving birth. He consulted Tara\'s friend who was a psychiatrist about the symptoms that Anya had been experiencing lately and the psychiatrist confirmed that it was very likely that Anya was experiencing postpartum depression.
She cried easily, was so sensitive and very vulnerable. She was also easily provoked by her emotions and her moodswing was pretty worse.
In fact, Aiden and Indah did nothing to Anya which caused her to not be able to breastfeed anymore. She could no longer produce breast milk because of the pressure she had to mentally endure while recovering.
But Aiden didn\'t want to tell Anya about this problem because he didn\'t want her to blame herself. If that happened, Anya\'s postpartum depression would get worse.
So, in the end Indah sacrificed herself and said that she was the one who asked the doctor to do it.
As a mother, she loved her daughter very much. In order to save Anya, she had to sacrifice her hand that has not been able to fully recover until now.
Anya would never question Indah\'s love for her because what Indah did all for her. In the end, Anya accepted the fact that she could no longer breastfeed.
Everyone knew Anya was depressed so they always took turns to accompany her, trying to help her not to be sad.
The doctor said that during when she was pregnant with twins, Anya was always tense because she was worried about the safety of her two sons.
After giving birth, someone tried to harm her children, making Anya even more scared.
Anya\'s life only started to improve when she lived on the island with her two sons. But suddenly her mother had an accident bad enough to knock her unconscious.
Her mother\'s condition made Anya seem like she had been hit with something hard. And Anya couldn\'t hold on to be strong.
She immediately returned to the city to see the condition of her mother. She was really scared, angry, worried, sad, causing inflammation and fever.
What made Anya even more devastated was the fact that she could no longer breastfeed. Even though she seemed to have accepted that fact, she still felt depressed.
Aiden kissed Anya\'s forehead patiently. "Anya, don\'t cry. Go to sleep. I will take you to see the children tomorrow,"