1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
1 in 8 Americans struggle with hunger each year.
1 in 8 babies are born prematurely in the United Stateseach year.
1 in 8 American women (at minimum) will have postpartum depression.
I hope someday we can get the same funding and support as the important and effective public awareness campaigns I link to above, because prolonging a mother's suffering can lead to a lifetime of health problems for both her and her baby.
There's NO EXCUSE that in this day and age there are still countless women who don't know what's wrong with them, or don't know where to get help or are afraid to get help. Do you hear me OB-GYNs? Do you hear me pediatricians? Do you hear me HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius? Do you hear me corporations who care about mothers?
There's NO EXCUSE.
Sometimes I wonder who will take up our cause, who will see that it's not just a figment of our imagination or a "bad day." Then I realize it's probably that no one will ever do so, because how could anyone understand how awful it is? There's no way. That's why we need to make our voices that much louder, to make up for all the people who'll never speak out for us. Thanks for everything you do, for speaking out for all the women like us. The day will come soon, I'm sure of it, when your efforts will pay off.
Just referred someone to your site. Thank you so much for what you do.
Thank you for making me laugh, which makes thinking about postpartum depression all day a whole lot easier.
We need to raise our voices, and we need people who have much bigger resources than we do to step up to the plate. They've got to realize if we can't get this straight, then we're negatively impacting the lives of nearly a million children and their mothers every year. That's not ok.
When I had my baby, I had just buried my husband. I didn’t have time for any postpartum depression. I had to get back to work.