by Leigh Ann Torres | Apr 30, 2018 | Emotional Health, News
April 30 – May 4, 2018, organizations around the US are breaking the myths of motherhood with the inaugural Maternal Mental Health Week, created by The Blue Dot Project. Getting real about motherhood is healthy for everyone, especially the 1 in 5 women...
by Parijat Deshpande | Oct 3, 2016 | Emotional Health, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
Nightmares. Jitteriness. Feeling jumpy. Heart palpitations. Avoiding places that remind you of “that awful time.” What does that sound like? Without any context, to most, that list sounds like symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is something many...
by Guest Blogger | Aug 18, 2016 | Emotional Health, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
The following post is the third installment of a three-part series on PPD and PTSD in NICU parents. Visit part 1, Postpartum Depression and PTSD in Fathers, and part 2, Postpartum Depression After a Complicated Delivery. A Traumatic Delivery It might surprise you to...
by Guest Blogger | Jun 20, 2016 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Fatherhood, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
This post is the first installment in a three-part series on PPD and PTSD in NICU parents. Visit part 2 of the series: Postpartum Depression after a Complicated Delivery, and part 3: Postpartum PTSD: How to Manage a Traumatic Birth Experience. We spend a lot of time...
by Andrea Mullenmeister | Dec 2, 2015 | Emotional Health
It’s been three years since my son, Jaxson, was born more than four months early and I still relive the experience, scene for scene, when I see or hear a helicopter. I am there. I feel the rumble of the helicopter blades. I smell the humid July air. I taste the fear...