A spotlight on postpartum mood disordersĮnglund’s case comes nearly six months after a Massachusetts woman, Lindsay Clancy, 32, was accused of strangling her three young children to death in an incident her attorney has argued was caused by inadequate treatment for postpartum depression and possibly postpartum psychosis. The affidavit says Englund told police she regretted hurting the baby’s father by killing their son and “acknowledged that what she did was wrong,” adding that “she never showed emotion” and “noted that she was unsure why she was ‘stoic’” as she recounted what happened. She told police that she feared for her son because the world was “crazy” and that she was worried he would get “really sick and it would be my fault because I brought him here and then I left him cuz I killed myself.” ![]() “I didn’t want to be a murderer, but I didn’t want him to suffer,” she allegedly said. Englund said the only other medication she had taken recently was an over-the-counter sleep aid to help her sleep the night before she allegedly killed her son. The affidavit says that Englund told police she had been prescribed a medication when she was in the hospital about a week earlier but that she took it only once because she felt suicidal afterward. It also says she told officers she had been hospitalized twice in the previous two weeks because of suicidal ideation and that she had made appointments to see a therapist but didn’t go because of sleep deprivation. The affidavit alleges that Englund told police that she had sought treatment for postpartum mental health issues and that the baby’s father had taken steps to try to protect the child.Įnglund told an officer that the baby’s father “locked her in a room” to separate her from him and the baby while they slept, “because he was worried she would do something to them,” the affidavit says. A spokesperson for the office could not immediately be reached for comment. ![]() The coroner’s office will determine the baby’s cause of death, police said.
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