Table 1 Mothers reporting pre-pregnancy onset of depressive symptomatology and initial reference to husband

...within the first 12 hours I knew that I was not doing well/like it was just that quick

I was pretty ill so my husband could probably tell a lot more about what happened ... going home [from hospital] I expected it would get better

I struggled with [undiagnosed] depression from childhood/[my child] was a planned pregnancy ... and then afterwards [after birth] there was a sudden change to where I'm speechless

I remember when we [her and partner] first got there [at emergency department] there were no beds ... so anyway we just - we're just gonna go home/[a family support person ] came and sort of smoothed things over

... after my [first child] was born/I saw [name of a previous psychiatric] by the time she was six months old/the depression and anxiety panic comes a lot at night cause I wake up and just think/"what am I going to do?"

Just before [child's] first birthday my husband lost his job