NYT Parenting talks about the traumatic impact of infertility for some women. Women going through infertility can experience an increase in both anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Some researchers argue that the definition of trauma should be expanded to include the psychological and emotional response to not only physical threats, but threats to deeply held expectations of life.
Meaghan O’Connell from The Cut talks about her experience with weaning in this article What happens to your hormones when you stop breastfeeding
The NY Times has a parenting site with many interesting and useful articles like this one on anxiety-
The Motherhood Center recently came out with a PSA which follows graduates of their Day Program. This is a wonderful resource for moms needing more support. Watch the video here:
The Magic of The Motherhood Center: The Journey of Seven PMAD Survivors
If you were to design a crack method to break up happy couples, you’d probably include sleep deprivation, financial insecurity, shredded erogenous zones, a third person in your bedroom and stress. In short: a baby.
This Vogue article, What Having A Child Does To Your Relationship, describes clearly how having a baby adds stress to the relationship but can also get you to a new place of becoming a family.
A new podcast, Motherhood Sessions, gives a glimpse of what it can be like to talk about the experience of motherhood with a therapist. The sessions start to explore various topics of motherhood with moms who have volunteered to sit down with Dr. Sacks, a reproductive psychiatrist.
The F.D.A. has approved the first drug specifically for postpartum depression. It definitely has its limitations but this is a move in the right direction. Read the entire NY Times article here.
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