Lindsay Clancy trial: How the U.K. treats postpartum psychosis in Mother and Baby Units

LONDON — Sofii Lewis knew something was deeply wrong within days of giving birth to her first child, Evie, in January 2023.

“I just didn’t have a bond with my daughter,” Lewis said. “I didn’t really want to be around her.”

Then the part-time baker became convinced that she or someone else might harm Evie. At night, a beeping sound — like that of a checkout till — haunted Lewis. She began to fear that someone was going to “buy Evie,” and she became “very suicidal,” said Lewis, who is now 27.

She also began to have thoughts of taking Evie’s life, in addition to her own.

“I know I certainly was hours, days away,” said Lewis, who lives in Aberdare, Wales.

Lewis believes that had she not received treatment within the U.K.’s trailblazing maternal mental healthcare system after being diagnosed with “tendencies of postpartum psychosis,” both she and Evie might not be alive today.

Lewis and other mothers she knows who have experienced maternal mental health struggles have been closely watching the case of Lindsay Clancy, who has been on trial for killing her three children after strangling them in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. Clancy’s defense…

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