Jayma Mays Was ‘So Sleep Deprived’ After Going Back to Work Two Weeks Postpartum: I Was ‘Mentally Exhausted’

The Glee alum recently welcomed her first child — son Jude, 5 months — with husband Adam Campbell. And just two weeks after she gave birth, she started filming for her new crime-documentary spoof show Trial & Error.

“I thought, yeah, you have a baby and then you just go to work. I had no idea,” Mays, 37, told PEOPLE Wednesday at the Television Critics Association conference in Pasadena, California.

She adds, “Thankfully, they were all incredibly supportive in allowing me to pump and do all those things I wanted to do as a mom.”

“I was sitting in the courtroom, and it was a long day,” she recalls of an experience during her first month postpartum. “Some of the scenes were quite long. I remember looking up and I was like, ‘Did I have a baby?’ I was hallucinating.”

“I was so sleep-deprived, and just so mentally exhausted. I was like, ‘I think I had a baby.’ It was nuts. The first month for me was absolutely nuts. I’m just now coming through it.”

Thankfully family came out because we never were parents before, she says. We felt if our parents could come and help, that was what we needed. So our parents, both sets, graciously came out and stayed with us for about six to eight weeks to get us on our feet before we had extra help come in. But it was nuts.

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