I am a HUGE fan of nurses. HUGE. It seems like it's always the nurses who show up at speeches or continuing education programs about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. It seems like it's always the nurses who initiate postpartum depression programs at hospitals. Really.
In fact, did you know that the current president of PSI is a nurse?
So imagine my surprise when I go to check out the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses new website —health4mom.org — and find no resourceson postpartum depression. Wha? No basic info? Not even a link to PSI?
I note that there is, however, an article on sex after childbirth. (Did a guy do this website?)
Thishas to be an oversight. AWHONN is very vocal about antenatal and postpartum mental health. They have position papers on postpartum depression. They support the MOTHERS Act.
Oh AWHONN … I'm a little birdie in your ear. Could you fix this teensy problem?
Katherine,
I'm glad you noted this on your blog, I checked out the Health4Mom website a few days ago and immediately did a search on PPD and as you know, nothing came up. I agree, it must have been an oversight on AWHONN's part.
Being a bit more skeptical, I would agree it was an oversight, but just goes to show that people (even ones looking out for expectant/new moms' well-being), still don't get it or are trying to gloss over the whole motherhood thing, like they're afraid to scare mothers off at the mention of the words "postpartum depression." It's the stigma thing again. I wrote a note and sent it off to them, asking if they could add info on this very critical topic for the empowerment of women and their families.
I'm totally shocked by this! As you mentioned, AWHONN has absolutely supported legislation regarding postpartum depression and has published a position statement regarding the role that we as nurses have in screening, supporting, educating and advocating for our patients. They have many great articles and handouts available on their "professional" website. Yet, they omit this very important subject from their "patient" website??? I'm so disappointed and hope that this oversight will be corrected quickly! Thanks for posting!
I know! AWHONN really is great. I've never had a complaint about how they support women with PMADs. I sent an email to the person who does their PR and I'm hoping they'll respond. I'm sure they'll fix it.
I got this reply to my email that I sent through their website today:
"Just because it is not on our site yet, does not mean that it won't bein the future. We only launched a few months ago, and it is not an easything to get brand new content for a web site. We have mostly nurses andother healthcare practitioners writing content for us. Thank you for your feedback."
They could simply ask Birdie Gunyon Meyer, president of PSI, and RN to do it and I'm sure it would be done in a flash.
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our lastest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feeled compared to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most compreshensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326
Hello all!
Upon second read, I see a significant number of typos in my previous post. Forgive me as I'm out of the office today but felt this blog deserved a response as quickly as possible to clear up any confusion about AWHONN's actions or intentions in this area. Spell-check on the iPhone is obviously inadequate!
Here's the post again in full, corrected for clarity in readership:
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our latest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feel compelled to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most comprehensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326
Maria,
I wanted to make sure you saw this post I put up today in response to your discussion last week:
Hello all!
Upon second read, I see a significant number of typos in my previous post. Forgive me as I'm out of the office today but felt this blog deserved a response as quickly as possible to clear up any confusion about AWHONN's actions or intentions in this area. Spell-check on the iPhone is obviously inadequate!
Here's the post again in full, corrected for clarity in readership:
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our latest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feel compelled to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most comprehensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326
Ivy,
I wanted to make sure you saw this post that I added to the thread on AWHONN and PPD today:
Hello all!
Upon second read, I see a significant number of typos in my previous post. Forgive me as I'm out of the office today but felt this blog deserved a response as quickly as possible to clear up any confusion about AWHONN's actions or intentions in this area. Spell-check on the iPhone is obviously inadequate!
Here's the post again in full, corrected for clarity in readership:
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our latest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feel compelled to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most comprehensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326
Wendy,
I wanted to make sure you saw the response I posted today regarding AWHONN and PPD:
Hello all!
Upon second read, I see a significant number of typos in my previous post. Forgive me as I'm out of the office today but felt this blog deserved a response as quickly as possible to clear up any confusion about AWHONN's actions or intentions in this area. Spell-check on the iPhone is obviously inadequate!
Here's the post again in full, corrected for clarity in readership:
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our latest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feel compelled to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most comprehensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326
Katherine,
I wanted to make sure you saw this post today regarding AWHONN and PPD — please do call AWHONN if you ever have questions:
Hello all!
Upon second read, I see a significant number of typos in my previous post. Forgive me as I'm out of the office today but felt this blog deserved a response as quickly as possible to clear up any confusion about AWHONN's actions or intentions in this area. Spell-check on the iPhone is obviously inadequate!
Here's the post again in full, corrected for clarity in readership:
Hello Katherine and bloggers,
As AWHONN's Director of Publications I'm writing because I'm thrilled you have found our latest work in project, our newest consumer website, http://www.Health4Mom.org and a new mother/baby magazine we're launching in early March called Healthy Mom & Baby magazine.
And while we appreciate your enthusiasm for the site, we feel compelled to share that you're catching the earliest stages of a work in progress. A quick trip around either Health4Mom.org, or its sister site, Health4Women.org, will certainly reveal many, many content categories that are there in "structure" but yet lack content to date.
Your topic of choice is just one such area. AWHONN is a legislative and clinical leader in promoting evidence-based care for women experiencing postpartum depression. And as your bloggers have pointed out, this isn't an "oops!" oversight moment for us. Rather, our websites are now functionally operational but have yet to be formally launched. In fact, won't be until next month, and we are daily adding new content to our sites. Rest assured this is an important topic that we plan to devote significant content toward as the websites roll out in their full over the course of the next 18 months.
We welcome your participation at our site and I will personally contact Katherine to see how that might be possible. Meantime, we have a significant cadre of expert authors, including Cheryl Beck, who have content on PPD to be posted at our site.
Please do keep checking back and checking in with me as desired; we invite your participation and involvement as we roll out what we plan to be the most comprehensive, evidence-based site for consumers and providers alike on the Web.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions or suggestions.
Best to you today,
Carolyn Davis Cockey, MLS
AWHONN Director of Publications
carolyndc@awhonn.org
877-377-5326