Postpartum Resources

POSTPARTUM MOOD AND ANXIETY

• Postpartum Support International

• Maternal Mental Health: Black Women & Birthing People 

• Postpartum Progress www.postpartumprogress.com

• The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC | A premier treatment and professional training center

• Olivia Bergeron, LCSW  www.mommygrove.com 

• Healthy Mom, Happy Family: Understanding Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders https://youtu.be/qKOHiPsu6To 

• New Mom Mental Health Check List 

• Edinburgh Perinatal Depression Scale

• Motherhood Center NYC

• Postpartum Resource Center of NY: poastpartumny.org 

• Perinatal mood and anxiety disorder checklist: https://parentingpod.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Warrior-Mom-Get-Help-Checklist.pdf 

• Article on how black mothers get less treatment for their PPD

• Black virtual and in-person therapists

• Therapy For Black Girls 

• Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color

• Mental Health resource from Boober: https://getboober.com/mental-health-support/ 

• Seeking black parent therapist: https://www.brooklynparenttherapy.com/about/ 

• Screening for depression:

  • PHQ2: 2 questions intro into probing for PMADs

  • PHQ9: give if screened positive with PHQ2

  • Edinburgh postnatal depression scale

• Books:

  • This Isn’t What I Expected

  • Postpartum Husband

  • Dropping the Baby And Other Scary Thoughts

  • Down Came The Rain

  • And Baby Makes Three

  • Life Will Never Be The Same: The Real Moms Postpartum Survival Guide

 

 

 

 

POSTPARTUM RESOURCES

• Bodily: What Postpartum Recovery & Breastfeeding Should Be 

• My Fourth App • Major Care postpartum app with virtual doula support

• Nurturing Beginnings: A guide to postpartum care for doulas and community outreach workers by Debra Pascali-Bonaro

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LOSS

• Pregnancyloss.org

• CompassionateFriends.org

• Seleni.org

• Center for loss in multiple births climb-support.org

• Unspokengrief.com

• QUILT - Nneka Hall 

• A Home for All who Hold Space for the Sacred Thresholds of Birth, Breath, and Death 

• Jessica Zucker, Ph.D. (@ihadamiscarriage) • Instagram photos and videos 

• Books: 

  • What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color

  • Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbearing Losses - Claudia Panuthos, Catherine Romeo

  • Trying Again: Guide To Pregnancy After Miscarriage

  • Companioning at a time of perinatal loss

  • unspeakable losses: healing from miscarriage, abortion, and other pregnancy loss

• Courses

  • Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss - The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath and Death