At first, Alexandria Garner was just tired.
The Shannon native, 27, had given birth to her second daughter, Charleigh. For the first three months afterward, Garner was mostly sleep deprived from having to constantly pump breast milk. She brushed off her exhaustion as the normal “baby blues.”
The turning point came on suddenly. One day, while she and her husband were driving home after visiting her family, Garner felt as if she just couldn’t do it anymore. Any of it.
“I just had the strong urge to jump out of the car and jump off a bridge because it was just that terrible at that time,” Garner said.