It’s Maternal Mental Health Week, and a great time to acknowledge the “Motherload” of stressors modern day mamas are facing. From @thebluedotprj: 🔵Up to one in five women will suffer from a maternal mental health disorder. These disorders can have new onset in the postpartum period, pregnancy or prior to pregnancy and persist through pregnancy. These disorders include the range of anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, PTSD, depression and the rare but serious postpartum psychosis. 🔵“The COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented and highly stressful to the entire population. For pregnant women, the worries about the pandemic can increase anxiety and worsen mood during pregnancy—both of which are known risk factors for maternal mental health concerns during the pregnancy and postpartum period. This speaks to the great need for increased emotional support for perinatal women.” -Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, Director, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders 🔵Risk factors heightened by the COVID situation include, but are not limited to:
Inadequate support, financial stress, marital stress, a major recent life event- loss, house move, job loss, feelings of powerlessness, poor communication and/or lack of support and reassurance during the delivery (risk factor for postpartum PTSD) 🔵Women in their childbearing years already account for the largest group with depression in the U.S. 🔵With so many businesses closed, limited healthcare resources, and lack of childcare available right now, it is harder than ever for moms to ask for, and receive help.
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