Demand for mental health support for new parents has risen significantly in B.C. since pandemic restrictions began. "That enormous change, of bringing a baby into your lives, is dramatic anyway and is already a recipe for creating a precarious mental health situation... When Acacia Tooth of Esquimalt was struggling with postpartum anxiety, pandemic travel restrictions meant she was cut off from her family in Manitoba. What is well documented, however, is the increased need for perinatal mental health services this year, especially in the absence of the informal support systems new parents would normally have had.

Source: CBC News July 24, 2021 03:45 UTC