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Fine Tuning
Carnie Wilson on Pregnancy, Weight Control and Postpartum
By Donna Smith
The time in the hospital, however, was a magic time for Wilson. "It was amazing," she says. "We had so many 
people there. Practically the whole family came. My dad was completely beside himself, and my mom was too. I stayed in the hospital for three days and I had a big room. We taped everything. We videotaped the whole thing."
The Baby Blues
Postpartum depression was another obstacle Wilson had to overcome. "I had really bad postpartum [depression] for about four months," she says. "When my milk came in I was extremely emotional. I just kept crying and crying and crying. Had a lot of weird postpartum thoughts, just real scary stuff that I was open about. I was just trying to just accept that's what happens. I didn't anticipate it. I didn't think, oh it's going to happen or oh, it's not. I just let it. And when I did have weird thoughts and weird feelings, I just said this is not real; it's in my head; it's hormones. I would breastfeed her and then would have contractions in my uterus and then I'd sob and cry and I just let my felings go. I said, OK, this is just what Mother Nature is doing to me." 
