During 1960‟s and 1970‟s a sharp increase in the representation of motherhood experience was seen in both popular and academic literature. Motherhood memoirs or mommy memoirs, or, even shorter, momoirs emerged to accommodate the varied aspects of mothering and motherhood experiences. These writings contest the popular notion that motherhood is a joyful and fulfilling experience by foregrounding the implicit aspect, i.e., the dark side of motherhood demonstrating mothers‟ pain and suffering. Instead of highlighting the glorified side of motherhood, these memoirs start highlighting the issues of sleep deprivation, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue and ambivalence of motherhood. This dark side of mothering job sometimes spirals into a harrowing Postpartum Depression (PPD). Dancing on the Edge of Sanity [1] paints the dark side of PPD with bold strokes. This memoir acts as an eye opener for those experiences which are generally swept under the hefty carpet of guilt and shame. In this paper, maternal theory will be used to analyze various socio-cultural factors that cause and intensify the experiences of PPD that Rouds [1] lived through.