On Thursday,Jeannie Mai Jenkinsintroduces her 5-month-old daugher Monaco for the first time sincewelcoming the little girl in Januarywith husbandJeezy— and PEOPLE has a sneak peek!
“[This] might be the most exciting episode I’ve had here on Hello Hunnay,” the new mom begins the clip.
The first half of the video includes footage of Monaco meeting different family members as well as Mai Jenkins' former co-hosts onThe Real.
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“I got really scared, guarded and protected,” she says. “Please excuse the nerves.”
“The new mom anxiety is real and I wasn’t prepared for the hit of it,” Mai Jenkins said about only having been prepared for potential postpartum depression.
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“Here I am going through postpartum with worries, with heart palpitations, with an inability to sleep, and I was like, ‘I’m not depressed; I’m actually super stoked and happy, but I’m worried and really anxious and fidgety,’ and I didn’t know what it was.”
After searching ‘Can you get anxious after birth?’ on the internet, she was surprised to learn about the realities of postpartum anxiety.
“It’s a huge difference from depression: I wasn’t sad, I wasn’t sleeping all day, I didn’t feel miserable about my life, I wasn’t having suicidal thoughts,” she added. “I was just very anxious, very uncomfortable and worried all the time.”
Gaining that understanding has helped Mai Jenkins manage life as mom to daughter Monaco. “Now that I know what it is, I still get anxiety attacks, but I’m aware that it’s just a phase,” she said.
source: people.com
