AWNW - 19th August 2015

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Issue #295 – Wednesday, 19 August, 2015

Albury Wodonga’s largest circulating newspaper

Jarratt brings on the fear factor AUSTRALIA cinema scary man John Jarratt and golden girl Kaarin Fairfax stop by in Albury to talk home-grown films, country towns, and the challenges of doing a job while literally tied to a chair. READ THE INTERVIEW ON PAGE 13. Lily and Kristal Byrne, and George and Josie with parents Kinta and Rick Gitsham join PEHP clinicians Lee Rennie, Fiona Gladstone, Laura Parisotto, and Brenda Coates in the fight to save the service. 143252 Picture: ERIN SOMERVILLE

Mums cry for help By ERIN SOMERVILLE WHEN Kinta Gitsham welcomed her first-born son Archie into the world seven years ago, something didn’t feel quite right. “His birth was quite horrific, and not that I knew it then, but something happened, something changed, something broke inside me the day that I welcomed him into my loving arms,� she said. “Weeks passed; I was beginning to

they would be without the support of Albury Wodonga Health’s Perinatal Emotional Health Program (PEHP). Both women understand the importance of having the specialist perinatal support service available nearby after having faced their own different and personal battles with postnatal depression (PND). It was an unexpected, dark, and lonely time in their lives, and an experience many of their family and friends

think I may have picked up the wrong book, as this was nothing like what I had read about this glorious ‘motherhood’ journey to be.� For Mrs Gitsham and her husband Rick, the journey of parenthood would be a very different from the one shown in baby books, despite being shared by thousands of Australian families. Sitting alongside Border mother Kristal Byrne and her young family, the two mothers often wonder where

failed to recognise or understand. Both women credit the Border’s PEHP for leading them, and their families, through the challenging, confusing, and isolated battle. “I wouldn’t be here without them,� Mrs Byrne states with searing honesty. The Byrne and Gitsham families have bravely opened up about their very personal battle with postnatal depression, also known as ‘Anxiety and Depression in Pregnancy and Early

Parenthood’, in a bid to help save PEHP across regional Victoria. The service currently helps over 100 North East Victorian women. They come from all walks of life. PND doesn’t discriminate. Many drive in from their rural farming communities, some come from a strong network of family and friends who just don’t quite understand, and others even cross the Border for help. Continued on page 2

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