The 2011 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting will be held next week in Honolulu. Several of the sessions at this important meeting will examine women's mental health, including postpartum PTSD and antenatal depression. The APA reports that improving the...
I don’t get to do stories on postpartum PTSD as often as I’d like, so I was thrilled when Kimmelin Hull reached out to me today about a piece appearing on Lamaze International’s Science & Sensibility blog. It’s entitled “Pain,...
Several of you have asked me to add some more survivor badges to the blog bling that already exists for survivors of postpartum depression, postpartum OCD, postpartum anxiety and postpartum psychosis. I've been asked for an antenatal depression survivor badge, a...
I’d like to heartily welcome Stacy Biscardi as a guest on Postpartum Progress today. Stacy has written an illustrative article about postpartum PTSD, her traumatic childbirth experience and how she is being treated for this disorder. Women forget the pain of...
From Amber at Beyond Postpartum, on women with PPD being afraid to switch healthcare providers: There Are Other Fish In the Sea From Walker at Fully Dilated, a poetic look at the origins of her postpartum PTSD: My Bad From Kristen at Birthing Beautiful Ideas, a...
[Editor’s Note: Postpartum PTSD is a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, and is especially common among women who have had traumatic births. I recently heard from Tricia Pil, a former pediatrician and survivor of postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder. She...
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.
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.