On Bei Bei Shuai & How We Don’t Help Pregnant Mothers With Depression
A pregnant woman tries to commit suicide. She lives. Her baby does not. Now Bei Bei Shuai is being charged with murder. Yesterday on Babble, I wrote about how our society speaks out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to pregnant mothers and depression. We want a...Weighing The Risks of Treating Antenatal Depression
There’s a new study out this week, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, on the effect of taking antidepressants during pregnancy that essentially offers the same result as other studies we’ve reported on here: Women with untreated depression...
Banding Back Together for Postpartum PTSD
This guest post was written by my beautiful friend Becky Harks, author of Mommy Wants Vodka, survivor of postpartum PTSD and antenatal depression, and founder of Band Back Together. She is a wonderful supporter of women with postpartum depression and all other mental...MGH Looks At SSRIs during Pregnancy & PPD and Sleep
The MGH Center for Women's Mental Health has two new stories out that I wanted to point you to: Postpartum Depression and Poor Sleep Quality Occur Togetherreviews a recent study on sleep quality and sleep efficiency among depressed new moms. Should SSRIs Be...
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.