Mother Charged With Murder Had Been Treated for Postpartum Depression
A baby has died and a mother is charged with murder. I hate writing about these things. I’d almost rather pretend they haven’t happened. Sonia Hermosillo, a mother of three who had apparently been treated for postpartum depression, threw her...Looking Back At Andrea Yates, 10 Years After the Tragedy
Ten years. How can it be ten years already? It was on June 20, 2001, that the tragedy happened. Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the midst of postpartum psychosis. That was just a few months before my sweet boy, my first child, was born in September. In the...Time Magazine & “Psychotic Nut Job” Mothers
"Psychotic nut jobs." That's the term used in a recent Time magazine Healthland piece about mothers who kill their newborns. Time, have we not already been over the issue of mental health stigma and poor reporting with you? Good grief. I'm...Postpartum Psychosis in the Early 1900s
Postpartum Progress reader Alison S. sent me this lovely email, and I asked her if I could post it here to share it with you. She said she stumbled across a memoir that she felt was perfect proof that postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are not illnesses of...Two Moms Speak Up About Psychosis & New Motherhood
I’m having a hard time focusing today ladies. Spent the weekend in the NC mountains with my children, where the weather was just lovely. Now I’m trying to catch up on email and Twitter. Two great things I want to point out to you today: The first is an...
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.