The Every Mother Project

Make sure you . You can't tell just by looking, and if you don't ask, she may not share her struggles because of shame and stigma. The Every Mother Project works to make sure *all* women's health professionals are confident knowing how to talk about perinatal emotional complications, how to recognize and understand the signs and symptoms, and most importantly how to help connect moms to supports and services.


MMHcoalition

You can't tell just by looking at her. how she's doing. you know she’s doing the best she can and help her find support if she needs it.

It's awareness week. If you know 5 moms, chances are you know someone who's experienced depression or anxiety in pregnancy or postpartum. MMHcoalition

Birth, postpartum and lactation professionals! It's week. Let's raise awareness with our colleagues and the families with whom we work!

It's . It's pregnancy loss. It's anxiety. It can be anger. It can be OCD. It can happen in pregnancy. To dads. It can be a bipolar disorder. Psychosis. It can be PTSD. We need to because every . Please share today. We need to lift this stigma that motherhood is always like a greeting card, because for 1 in 7, it is not. how she's really feeling
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/23/perinatal-anxiety-postnatal-depression

It's . It's pregnancy loss. It's anxiety. It can be anger. It can be OCD. It can happen in pregnancy. To dads. It can be a bipolar disorder. Psychosis. It can be PTSD. We need to because every . Please share today. We need to lift this stigma that motherhood isn't always like a greeting card, because for 1 in 7, it is not. how she's really feeling
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/23/perinatal-anxiety-postnatal-depression

A mom asked me today if most lactation consultants are well-informed about postpartum depression and other perinatal emotional complications and if they incorporate this information into their work with families. I answered that fortunately, more and more professionals who work with new and expectant families are more aware of these complications and actively screen for and respond to them as part of their work with clients.
If you work with pregnant folks and/or new families, download our updated Toolkit here: http://www.everymotherproject.org/perinatal-toolkit.html

Perinatal Toolkit

Excited to team up with A Mom Is Born Counseling and Coaching to provide a training in Perinatal Emotional Complications at the Om Births Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training!