The Village Needs Training Too: Preparing Families Before the Postpartum Crisis
We tell new mothers, “It takes a village.” We encourage them to ask for help, accept support, rest when the baby rests, and speak up when something does not feel right. But there is a question we do not ask often enough: Have we prepared the village to recognize when Mom is not okay? Families […]
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 […]