Pregnancy Registry Evaluates Impact of Antipsychotics On Infants
The MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health has a special registry for women who take atypical antipsychotic medications during pregnancy. This is a very important registry given the lack of information that exists about certain types of medications and their...
Can You Get Postpartum Depression AFTER the First Year?
Lately I have received numerous calls from moms whose kiddos are past the one-year mark. A couple of recent calls have been from moms whose kiddos are as “old” as 3. These moms always start the same way: “My son/daughter is almost (1, 2, 3), and so I know that I don’t...
Can You Prevent Postpartum Depression?
Is it possible to prevent postpartum depression? I am asked this question a lot. Experts believe that because there is no definite way of knowing how a woman’s body will respond to childbirth, so we cannot say that there is a specific prevention, so to speak, for...
Researchers Find Genes That Predict Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression is really a combo-pack of nature and nurture, rather than what we have thought of as solely a “chemical imbalance.” Part of the cause of PPD is likely your genes, and part of the cause is likely what type of trauma, stress or...
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.