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Study Reveals Less Incidence of Depressive Disorders Among Children Whose Mothers Are Successfully Treated for Depression

A new study reinforces the importance of seeking and maintaining medical treatment for moms with postpartum depression. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that children of mothers who have received successful treatment...

Survivor Photo Album

by Katherine Stone | 4 comments

One thing I’ve noticed on the talk show coverage of postpartum mood disorders is that they always only show sobbing, desperate mothers. I, of course, have been a sobbing, desperate mother, but now I am a smiling, confident and joyous mother! They never show the...

Infertility Treatments and PPD

by Katherine Stone | 1 comment

A week or so ago someone asked me whether there were any proven links between infertility treatments and postpartum mood disorders. Today I found this article from last August (how did I miss this?), about some research on the subject: In the the journal Fertility and...

Washington State Legislation on PPD

by Katherine Stone | 0 comments

Yesterday I heard from Christin Jamieson, Communications Director for the Washington Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. She informed me that Washington State passed legislation last year that will create a statewide postpartum depression awareness...

Another Senseless Death

by Katherine Stone | 3 comments

I just got word from Helena Bradford that we’ve lost another new mother to the insidious illness of postpartum depression. I had to have a good cry before I posted this because it just crushes me every time this happens. This is an abbreviated version of the...