Joy-Anna Duggar is not in a good place right now.
the former Reality star gives birth to her third child In May 2023, husband Austin Forsyth shared the blessed news on social media as follows:
“She’s here! Thank you all for your prayers…mom and baby are doing fine.”
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Joy-Anna and Austin are also parents to 5-year-old son Gideon and 3-year-old daughter Evelyn.
She suffered a miscarriage in 2019.
Now, meanwhile, Duggar has used the couple’s YouTube channel to admit that she is suffering from postpartum depression; Now for the first time, either.
But this seems unlike those old times.
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“I thought I’d just share the things I’ve been struggling with,” the Counting On alum said in the footage. “This postpartum has been a lot harder than my last postpartum.”
Duggar has seen a therapist to help deal with such physical and mental health issues.
“She said, ‘I definitely think you’re struggling with some postpartum depression’,” the TLC personality explained.
The mother of three added that her doctor took a full lab panel and found that she was deficient in several vitamins.
“There’s also the mental side of things that I really struggle with and I’ve never had to struggle like this before,” Joy-Anna confessed.
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Joy-Anna previously said her work isn’t done having children.
But should she be based on how she’s feeling at the moment? How does she often feel after becoming a mother?
Of course, it’s not for us to determine.
“I want you guys to know that I don’t always have my life together and my days don’t always go well,” Joy-Anna said late last week. “It’s not always easy.”
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Joy-Anna and Austin have been excited about their third child, Gunner, since he arrived into the world.
Thankfully the child is absolutely fine.
Unfortunately, however, Joy-Anna has had to face a lot of criticism For the parents’ alleged mistakes over the past several months.
Perhaps now, with many observers paying attention to the struggles the Duggars are experiencing, these critics will back off. They Needed retreat.
If they have the slightest sense of manners or good manners or are simply sympathetic people, they will absolutely back off.
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