I got this email from Heather and I wanted to share it because it’s a sentiment many of us share:
"I have often wondered why there aren’t mental health clinics dedicated to women with only [perinatal mood and anxiety disorders]? Why would they not build places for women facing this, and make more insurance policies cover places like this, and for the uninsured require low income or no income eligibility for these women? A place where a woman can go and get the care she needed and be around others that face these same problems? My idea would be to build and staff a mental health clinic dedicated only to women suffering [these illnesses] and a staff of nurses to help care for the baby while mom is in there getting the help she needs. Then the mother could see the baby and still bond while going through treatment. This is possible,but will it ever happen? I hope to see this happen. I do not think it should be just a far-fetched dream. I wrote the governor’s wife in my home state with this same idea. I hope to hear good news that this can be possible in the near future."
We do have a couple of programs like that in the U.S., Heather, but we certainly need more. I’m hoping more and more hospitals will follow the lead of Margaret Howard at the Women and Infants Hospital Day Hospital in Providence, RI. If they can make it work so that it makes financial sense for the hospital and works for the women and their families, why can’t others?
Hey Katherine, Hope you are well. You mention the day program in RI and then in yesterday's post a unique inpatient program at UNC, however I am unaware of any other hospitalization programs which host postpartum moms specifically. If there are others, could you please send me the list?
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