AUSTIN (KXAN) - "Postpartum is like a slap in the face," Georgetown mom Juliette Ferguson said. Ferguson, a mom of three boys, said she was stunned after she had her first son. The anxiety was so bad she could not eat or sleep. It would manifest in anger or rage, and she remembers feeling aching loneliness. "This should have been a massive red flag to myself, to my husband. I was standing in the living room. The baby was screaming, and I was having a time trying to console him.