Postpartum Psychosis: What Every Family Should Know, and How to Help a Loved One The ongoing Lindsay Clancy trial has brought a condition many families may never have heard of into national conversation: postpartum psychosis. It is important that we discuss it carefully. Postpartum psychosis is not synonymous with postpartum depression. It is not the […]
The Fourth Trimester Should Not Be an Afterthought: When Our Health System Fails Mothers
The ongoing trial of Lindsay Clancy has placed maternal mental health, postpartum psychosis, clinical decision-making, and the criminal justice system into the national spotlight. It is an extraordinarily triggering and difficult case involving the deaths of three children, and the courts must determine the questions of criminal responsibility before them. But there is another conversation […]
How SIMI’s Mom Count Program Is Reimagining Community-Based Maternal Support
Pregnancy should be a time of anticipation and support. But for too many women, especially in under-resourced communities across Ghana and the United States, it is a time of uncertainty, limited access, and unheard concerns. SIMI’s Mom Count program was built to change that. What is Mom Count? Mom Count is an evidence-based maternal health […]
From the Bronx, and Belize to Ghana: Why Community Screening Saves Lives
What if the most powerful thing a community could do for its health was to show up? Not to a hospital. Not to a specialist. But to a free screening event in a familiar space, to a church hall, a community center, a school gym, surrounded by people who look like them and speak their […]