Namibia: ‘I wasn’t me any more’– photographer on herpostnatal depression – News

Dola Posh has multiple identities: photographer, woman, Nigerian, mother, Briton.

Yet after giving birth, she no longer felt sure who she was.

Six days after her daughter was born, she was lying in a bed in an English hospital, in the midst of a Covid lockdown.

She worried about how her life had changed and if she would ever again do what she loved – taking pictures.

Unable to visit, relatives kept calling to check up on her and the baby. After a difficult pregnancy, Dola felt…