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 […]
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 […]