Julie, yes those questions are a lot more on the mark, especially the questions that deal with numbness and dissociation. For example, I had enormous difficulty talking to my DD for months. I could sing to her, but I couldn't chat to her about everyday things the way most mothers do. There are months and months of entries in my journal about this one thing, I was convinced I was a terrible mother, not that I'd had this traumatic experience and what I was experiencing was dissociation!

However I'm not sure that a questionnaire immediately after birth would have caused me to identify the problem. It was some months later that i noticed that I didn't seem to be coping the way other new mums were, and that my energy hadn't returned. I also experienced a lot of fatigue and pain (not related to sleep deprivation as I was getting a lot of sleep) it was more of a drained feeling like I just didn't have any energy.