When A Beautiful Time In Your Life Turns Terrifying: Postpartum OCD

She waited her whole life for this. When she was 4-years old, she laid all her baby dolls out on the kitchen floor and covered them, lovingly, with dish towels, shushing them to sleep. When she was 17-years old, she delighted in babysitting for the neighborhood kids. Now, at 33-years old, she leans over her newborn baby’s bassinet and….something is terribly, terrifyingly wrong.