Synopsis

When a new parent’s postpartum depression devolves into bizarre hallucinations, an escape from motherhood becomes necessary.

Meera Rohit Kumbhani stars in this rare and brutally honest short dramedy.

Director’s Statement

As a new parent I experienced postpartum depression that resulted in near-hallucinatory “intrusive thoughts”. At the time, I did not know that over half of new child-bearing parents studied report having intrusive thoughts. I thought I was just a horrible person, and definitely a horrible mom.

There is a lot of silence about postpartum depression, and the major goal of Sleep Training is to use humor and honesty to make it easier for us to have conversations about a difficult experience which none of us should feel alone in.

-Sunita Prasad