in-home lactation support
/Boober is a great resource that helps connect women with immediate in-home support with a lactation consultant.
The Trauma of Infertility
/NYT Parenting talks about the traumatic impact of infertility for some women. Women going through infertility can experience an increase in both anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Some researchers argue that the definition of trauma should be expanded to include the psychological and emotional response to not only physical threats, but threats to deeply held expectations of life.
Hormones and Weaning
/Meaghan O’Connell from The Cut talks about her experience with weaning in this article What happens to your hormones when you stop breastfeeding
Postpartum Anxiety
/The NY Times has a parenting site with many interesting and useful articles like this one on anxiety-
"The Magic of The Motherhood Center"
/The Motherhood Center recently came out with a PSA which follows graduates of their Day Program. This is a wonderful resource for moms needing more support. Watch the video here:
The Magic of The Motherhood Center: The Journey of Seven PMAD Survivors
"What Having A Child Does To Your Relationship"
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If you were to design a crack method to break up happy couples, you’d probably include sleep deprivation, financial insecurity, shredded erogenous zones, a third person in your bedroom and stress. In short: a baby.
This Vogue article, What Having A Child Does To Your Relationship, describes clearly how having a baby adds stress to the relationship but can also get you to a new place of becoming a family.
"Motherhood Sessions"
/A new podcast, Motherhood Sessions, gives a glimpse of what it can be like to talk about the experience of motherhood with a therapist. The sessions start to explore various topics of motherhood with moms who have volunteered to sit down with Dr. Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist.