An Expert Weighs In On Treatment for Depression In Pregnancy
I wanted to share this letter with you, created by Dr. Laura Miller, a reproductive psychiatrist and the director of Women’s Mental Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Here’s the information she offered to her own patients and other...The Harm of A One-Sided Story: Antidepressants and Pregnancy
Nothing infuriates me like ignoring the facts. Presenting only one side of the story. I hate it when people do that about maternal mental illness. This week, there was a study that came out on the use of antidepressants during pregnancy. The study authors presented a...
Pregnancy Depression Was Like Running A Marathon With A Broken Leg
Today’s Warrior Mom is Lindsay H. She was and still is very frustrated that there’s so little information out there about pregnancy depression, also called antenatal depression or prenatal depression. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when my world was...On Bei Bei Shuai & How We Don’t Help Pregnant Mothers With Depression
A pregnant woman tries to commit suicide. She lives. Her baby does not. Now Bei Bei Shuai is being charged with murder. Yesterday on Babble, I wrote about how our society speaks out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to pregnant mothers and depression. We want a...Weighing The Risks of Treating Antenatal Depression
There’s a new study out this week, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, on the effect of taking antidepressants during pregnancy that essentially offers the same result as other studies we’ve reported on here: Women with untreated depression...
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.
Meet Katherine
Katherine Stone is the creator of Postpartum Progress. She is a survivor of postpartum anxiety & OCD. Follow her on Twitter at @postpartumprog or on Instagram at @katherine_stone.