MedCity News October 5, 2023
In response to the urgent need for support, the federally funded National Maternal Mental Health Hotline was launched in 2022,. In its first year, the hotline for new and expectant parents received more than 12,000 calls and texts, underlining the depth of the crisis affecting millions of Americans.
For decades, the emotional highs and lows after giving birth were dismissed as simply “the baby blues.” However, though we’ve made strides in understanding the severity of postpartum depression, the medical community (both from the physical and mental side) is still struggling to support perinatal mental health.
In light of this, we are weaving together our collective decades of experience treating individuals on their paths to parenthood to explore why the maternal...
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