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The 21-Day Self-Care Challenge: Day 7

Another day of the 21 day self-care challenge under your belt! Another ten minutes invested in yourself to handle the demands of your world. Today, capitalize on the way women are socialized to “tend and befriend” under stress. Think about a close friend in your life....

A Dad’s View of Postpartum Depression

by Katherine Stone | 0 comments

We don’t have as much opportunity to hear from dads as we do from moms suffering from postpartum depression. We don’t often get an inside look on how dads view PPD, what it feels like for them and what they think is happening to their wives. Today, though,...

Letting Go of the Guilt About Not Breastfeeding During Postpartum Depression

by Katherine Stone | 56 comments

In 2008, Lisa Sniderman wrote a compelling piece for Postpartum Progress about how she quit her bipolar medications so that she could breastfeed after the birth of her daughter, and ended up being hospitalized for severe postpartum depression. She wrote about what a...

How Many Women Get Postpartum Depression? The Statistics on PPD

by Katherine Stone | 11 comments

Quick, guess which number is higher: the number of people who sprain an ankle each year, the number of people who have a stroke, or the number of women who experience postpartum depression? PPD. Surprised? In so many books, articles and news programs, you hear the...