The following post by Ruth Moss is #4 in my series on Mental Health and Breastfeeding. The other posts can be found here, here and here. Ruth was one of the first breastfeeding moms I made friends with on Twitter. Her talent for writing can be enjoyed all over the internet. For a list [...]
Continue reading about Support for Breastfeeding Can Make All The Difference
This is Post #3 in my Breastfeeding and Mental Health series. Today I am honoured to have a guest post from Arwyn at Raising My Boychick who shares her experience of a meeting with her psychiatrist when she was considering having a baby and breastfeeding. The other posts in this series can be found here, [...]
Continue reading about I Never Went Back: On Psychiatric Ignorance of Breastfeeding
This is post #2 in my Mental Health and Breastfeeding series. The other posts can be found here, here and here.
In her article Does breastfeeding really protect against postpartum depression? Lauren Hale from the Atlanta Northside New Moms Examiner discusses one study’s findings that postpartum depression is the result of biochemical hormonal changes in the postpartum period.
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