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OGDEN — Giving birth has been no picnic for Alicia Glascock, but the mother of three is now helping others through their struggles by helping run a free postpartum support group.
With her second child, Glascock had a uterine inversion, where “the placenta fails to detach from the uterine wall and pulls the uterus inside-out as it exits,” according to Better Health Channel.
Glascock said she was rushed to the operating room so her uterus could be put back in place, and she had four blood transfusions.
That experience left her with post-traumatic stress disorder. Learning she had post-traumatic stress disorder was a good thing, she said, because it helped her realize she wasn’t the only person that has gone through it.
“Having a name really helped,” Glascock said. “(It) just helped me realize that I wasn’t just going crazy.”
With her third baby, who was born in November, she had placenta accreta, “where the placenta attaches itself too deeply into the wall of the uterus,” according to American Pregnancy. With that experience, Glascock had to have a hysterectomy.
Glascock has experienced her fair share of postpartum depression, and she currently helps run a free postpartum support group in Ogden. The group began meeting last August and meets once a month.
“I had no idea when I started it in August how much it would help me through everything,” Glascock said. “... It’s been a great support.”
She and four other women run the support group, and she said she has made some great friends.
“Our first meeting we had two people … and our biggest meeting, which was in February, we had 17 other people come,” Glascock said.
She hopes this support group helps other women know they are not alone.
“Because for me that was the most debilitating aspect of it, always thinking that I was just alone in everything, that no one understood what I was going through and I just want women to know that it’s OK to be going through this,” she said.
For those interested in attending the support group, it is held at 7 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of every month at Arrivals Birth Services at 1190 E. 5425 S. in Ogden. Questions can be emailed to powerfulpostpartum@gmail.com. Information is available on the closed Facebook group “Powerful Postpartum Support Group - Ogden.”
Glascock is a Warrior Mom Ambassador for Postpartum Progress. Through the nonprofit organization, she is running an event called Climb Out of the Darkness this summer.
According to the event’s CrowdRise page, “Climb Out is held on or near the longest day of the year annually to help shine the most light on perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. The event features mothers and others across the globe joining together to climb mountains and hike trails to represent their symbolic rise out of the darkness of maternal mental illness and into the light of hope and recovery.”
The event will take place at 10 a.m. June 18 at the South Ogden Nature Park. For more details, visit the CrowdRise page*.
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