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05/07/2026

05/06/2026

Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day 🌎 1 in 5 women will experience a perinatal mental health disorder, and many of them do not receive screening or treatment, leaving them to suffer in silence.

Share your story. Share PSI's resources. Help us Connect the Dots around the world so every mother knows they are not alone, they are not to blame, and with help, they WILL be well 💙

If you need help or support:
🔷 Call or text the Postpartum Support International HelpLine at 800-944-4773. You never need a diagnosis to ask for help.
🔷 Call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-852-6262
🔷 In a crisis situation, call or text the National Su***de & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
🔷 Download the Connect by PSI app in the App Store or Google Play Store
🔷 Visit postpartum.net for additional programs and resources.

05/06/2026

Today is World Maternal Mental Health Day 🌎
🔵 Worldwide, 1 in 5 women experience a perinatal mental health disorder (PMHD) during pregnancy or postpartum.
🔵 Estimates are that 7 in 10 women downplay or hide their symptoms.
🔵 Perinatal mood disorders affect the entire family, and dads, partners, and non-birthing parents are also likely to experience a PMHD when the mother or birthing parent is also experiencing one.
🔵 It is estimated that 20-25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth, which increases the risk of experiencing a PMHD.

You are not alone. You are not to blame. With help, you WILL be well 💙 Get help now ⤵️
📱 Call or text the PSI HelpLine at 800-944-4773. You never need a diagnosis to ask for help.
💻 Visit Postpartum.net for free support programs and perinatal mental health resources.

05/06/2026

Join Maternal Trauma Support and Chicago Family Doulas for a FREE Maternal Mental Health Panel on 5/17!

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026
🕒 10:30am-12:30pm CST | 11:30am-1:30pm EST
📍 Virtual on Zoom
🎫 Cost: FREE!

Together, we’re breaking down stigma and making space for real, honest conversations that center lived experience and improve maternal mental health outcomes.

Moderated by:

🎙️ Olivia Verhulst, LMHC, PMH-C – Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Parental Leave Coach, Adjunct Professor at NYU, Forbes Health Advisor, & Co-Founder of Maternal Trauma Support

🎙️ Anna Rodney – Labor & Postpartum Doula, Founder of Chicago Family Doulas & Birth and Baby University

Meet Our Keynote Speaker:

💜 Kayleigh Summers, LCSW, PMH-C – The Birth Trauma Mama Podcast, Psychotherapist, & AFE Survivor

Meet Our Panelists:

✨ Liz Gray, LCSW and – IVF warrior, trauma survivor, psychotherapist

✨ Kara Kushnir, LCSW, PMH-C .humans and – Psychotherapist

✨ Dr. Dionne Middlebrooks, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS – board-certified Orthopedic Specialist, Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and Birth Doula

✨ Katie Prezas, IBCLC, PMH-C – International Board Certified Lactation Consultant

✨ Dr. Roohi Jeelani, MD, FACOG .health – double board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist (REI)

✨ Raag Malhotra, Psychologist, PMH-C – Psychotherapist

✨ Chelsea Derrico, CD, CPD, CCE – Certified Labor & Postpartum Doula, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, & Certified Childbirth Educator

✨ Melissa Brown, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC, PMH-C – dual board- certified Psychiatric & Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner

A special thanks to our current sponsors!





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05/03/2026

For the mothers who carry love and loss side by side, this Bereaved Mother’s Day, we honor you. Through every memory, every milestone, and every quiet moment, your motherhood matters.

Star Legacy Foundation stands with families remembering babies gone too soon. Today, and every day, we hold space for your love, your grief, and your strength. You are forever a mother. 💙

04/30/2026

May is Maternal Mental Health Month, and we're Connecting the Dots for Maternal Mental Health 🔵

1 in 5 parents will experience a perinatal mental health disorder (PMHD) during or after pregnancy. PMHDs
are the #1 complication of childbirth. And yet...most parents navigate it in silence.

That silence is what we’re here to break.

This May, Postpartum Support International and The Blue Dot Project are sharing the statistics, stories, support, and solidarity about perinatal mental health disorders so that every parent knows they are not alone, they are not to blame, and with help, they WILL be well.

Learn more and help us Connect the Dots this May: https://loom.ly/ZgJv2iU

04/24/2026

Repost from Jennifer Ann Counseling

A boundary is less about getting someone else to comply and more about what YOU will do if they don’t.

I hear people say “they didn’t respect my boundary so idk what to do.” But the boundary is not just what you say you DON’T want to happen… most of what a boundary involves is the action you’re willing to take to take care of yourself when that thing keeps happening. Without this follow-through… it’s just a request 😞

A boundary sounds like:

“If you keep calling me names, I’m going to hang up the phone.”

“If you keep making comments about the cleanliness of my house when you come over, I’m going to ask you to leave.”

“If you raise your voice at me, I’m going to step away from the conversation.”

“If you cancel last minute again, I’m going to stop making plans for awhile.”

“If you keep texting me and calling me while I’m at work, I’m not going to respond until I’m off.”

“If you continue to show up late, I’m going to start without you.”

“If you bring up my body or food choices again, I’m going to change the subject or leave the room.”

Boundaries are less about controlling someone else’s behavior and more about deciding what you will and won’t participate in. But you have to be willing to follow through 🫶🏽

04/17/2026

"Ten years ago, pregnant with my first child, I joined all of the online postpartum and parenting communities. Day after day, I saw the same posts: Women sharing their exhaustion, their demoralization, their physical suffering from childbirth. They got up repeatedly with babies while husbands slept. They were so tired they couldn’t see or think straight. They hated their bodies. They were in pain. The solution was so very obvious. If their husbands would get up with the baby half the time, deign to clean the house, pretend to care about their partners’ birth experiences, then these poor women could finally get some rest and begin healing.

Almost no one ever suggested this. If you’ve ever been in one of these groups, you know already the response:

“Have you been screened for postpartum depression?”

Now I’m 42. I’m a nursing mother, so I’m still in those groups, but I’m also in groups for older mothers. The core problem remains the same: lazy men who don’t love their partners or tend to their needs. The manifestation is different.

Now women are angry at their partners. They don’t want to have s*x. They feel unfulfilled. They’re exhausted. They live with chronic pain. Their lives are the very predictable, obvious results of serving other people for years without a break. They need support. Instead, they’re now told that maybe it’s perimenopause."

https://zawn.substack.com/publish/post/192842262

04/10/2026

I see this so often from moms in groups. All of the qualities that make us successful in the work world conspire to work against us with the massive adjustment of the postpartum period. The more you consider yourself to be a perfectionist or type A, the more challenging the chaos of the unpredictable newborn days can feel. credit