by Katherine Stone |
Postpartum PTSD remains a little-discussed illness on the perinatal mood and anxiety disorder spectrum. Many women who experience it do so after a traumatic birth. From the website Heal My PTSD comes the story of a mom who experienced postpartum post-traumatic stress... by Katherine Stone |
I wanted to share with you some nice videos on the web today about postpartum depression. The first comes from the BBC in the United Kingdom, and features a doctor discussing the basics of postnatal depression, as the Brits call it, quite nicely. Check it out here.... by Katherine Stone |
From the journal Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice comes a study on yoga and postpartum women with anxiety. Researchers from Iran found that participation in a two-month yoga class can lead to significant reduction in perceived levels of anxiety in women... by Katherine Stone |
A study published in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders has examined 16 different studies and concludes that there is little consistent evidence that theChinese postpartum custom of confinement or "doing the month" reduces postpartum... by Katherine Stone |
Richard Shaw, MD, a child psychiatrist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and an associate professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is studying postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder among moms and dads whose infants stayed in a NICU....