How Mandi Left Her Dark Days Behind ; Parenting Postnatal Depression (Pnd) Affects One in 10 New Mums and Can Leave Parents Feeling Utterly Hopeless. But Catherine Ball Spoke to One Woman Who has Fought Back From the Darkest Moments of Pnd to Start Her Own Business

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › October 26, 2010

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WHEN Mandi Elkin fell pregnant in 2008, she was on top of the world.

She was doing well in her career having worked her way up from the role of assistant to manager of an administration office.

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How Mandi Left Her Dark Days Behind ; Parenting Postnatal Depression (Pnd) Affects One in 10 New Mums and Can Leave Parents Feeling Utterly Hopeless. But Catherine Ball Spoke to One Woman Who has Fought Back From the Darkest Moments of Pnd to Start Her Own Business

She remembers: "Like most firsttime mums I was confident that I would return to my career within six months of having my baby and everything would return to more or less normal."

But when the 33-year-old gave birth to her son Archie, now 21 months, in Febr...

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