News Forum - Newborn baby boy found abandoned in Bangkok

[Thaiger]

A newborn baby boy was found abandoned in Bangkok this morning.  At 8am,  Police Lieutenant Colonel Phongsathorn Lueapcharoen, deputy director of Thonglor Police Station, was informed that a child had been abandoned in Soi Sukhumvit 36, sub-soi 3 in Khlong Tan, in the city’s Khlong Toei district. The authorities investigated, accompanied by rescue volunteers. On …

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[HolyCowCm]

Pretty cruel. How someone could do this is beyond me.

[Karolyn]

On 4/29/2023 at 3:57 PM, HolyCowCm said:

Pretty cruel. How someone could do this is beyond me.

In fairness, when this happens the woman is usually suffering postpartum depression. Without an immediately supportive social network, women do abandon their newborn babies, sometimes. 

[KaptainRob]

10 minutes ago, Karolyn said:

In fairness, when this happens the woman is usually suffering postpartum depression

Had to Google that:-

 

 

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Is postpartum and postnatal the same thing?

The difference, then, between the postpartum and the postnatal period is that 'postpartum' refers to the mother and 'postnatal' refers to the infant.

 

For some obscure reason a former wife, and registered nurse, had only ever used the the latter term for her own problems  later diagnosed as Chrohn's.  

 

[HolyCowCm]

59 minutes ago, Karolyn said:

In fairness, when this happens the woman is usually suffering postpartum depression. Without an immediately supportive social network, women do abandon their newborn babies, sometimes. 

Unfotunately it turns up in the news more than I think everyone thinks happens. Just a shame for the little fella. At least he is still alive.

[Marc26]

6 hours ago, KaptainRob said:

Had to Google that:-

 

For some obscure reason a former wife, and registered nurse, had only ever used the the latter term for her own problems  later diagnosed as Chrohn's.  

My nephew's fiance's sister just went through this

She was suicidal 

 

Thankfully she had family to take care if the baby

 

But this was a well adjutsed(nurse also) eager waiting for the birth of her newborn and she just unraveled 

 

 

And way back when it happened in your case, it would have been underdiagnosed