We are failing postpartum mothers — even though we know how to help themNo one told Ashley Healy that the deep sadness and loneliness she experienced after her first child was born was postpartum depression. "I was still very much struggling with postpartum depression (though you wouldn't know it from the photo)," she says. “I was reading the medical records from the OB’s office, and there it was,” she told me, a diagnosis of postpartum depression. “They never referred me for treatment or therapy — nothing.” The diagnosis meant that she was more likely to experience postpartum depression again. For the better part of two decades, health care reform has been focused on preventive care.

Source: New York Times March 17, 2023 03:11 UTC