The last thing Ameilia Boodoosingh Gopie remembers before blacking out on the delivery table is holding her daughter, Allana, for the first time.
She didn’t feel anything. No connection. No love.
“Who is this?” she remembers thinking about the baby. Then she bled out for 45 minutes.
The feeling of motherly love she had envisioned while pregnant didn’t come to her in the days that followed Allana’s birth and her own recovery, said Gopie, who lives in Florida. Weeks passed, and then months. Gopie, who was 39 when Allana was born in August 2022, spent eight months battling postpartum depression before she started to form a real connection with her daughter.
But just when she started to come into her own as a mom, her world fell apart. On Christmas Eve 2024, at 42, with a 2-year-old daughter to care for, Gopie was diagnosed with breast cancer.
