Happy New Year to all of you fabulous moms and PPD advocates out there! I hope you had a good holiday.
This year it is my goal to widen my work as an advocate for postpartum depression. I hope to generate even more readership for Postpartum Progress, the most widely read blog in the U.S. on postpartum mood disorders. I hope you’ll let other women know about it so they have access to all the information I’ve been compiling over the last 2+ years. And I hope you find it helpful. If not, or if you have suggestions, email me ASAP! at stonecallis@msn.com.
I also hope to start a support group for the Southside of Atlanta. I wanted to start it in the fall, but I procrastinated. Now that Madden is 10 months old, I think I can handle it. I just need to get started and put the word out.
I’d also like to ask that you be patient with me as I get quite a large number of emails from individuals. It may take me a few days to get back to you but it is NOT because you are not important. Each of you is VERY important and I love to hear from you and hear your stories and try to be supportive in whatever way I can. Hearing from you is my favorite part of what I do. It’s just that, with the baby, I’m not able to check email every single day. I try to do it two or three days a week and spend a couple of hours on it — I’ve spent two hours this evening, for instance. So please, please continue to email me. Lay it on me! Whatever you’ve thought or experienced, don’t worry — I’ve heard it all and I’m not shocked. However bad you feel, it’s okay with me. Whatever help you need, I’ll try and see if I can find someone somewhere who knows where you can get it.
I feel like 2007 is going to be a great year for us. Let’s hear it for passage of the MOTHER’S ACT very soon, for more support groups to be started, and for an enormous reduction in the number of deaths from 2006. Love you all!!
— Katherine
