Dr. Ivy Love Margulies – Perinatal loss expert & Death Midwife Going through a loss of a child during pregnancy, birth or postpartum can be devastating to a family. It’s also hard to know what to do…how to even make decision moving forward. Psychlogist, Dr. Ivy Love Margulies shares her expertise in perinatal mental health, reproductive…
Parijat Deshpande, High Risk Pregnancy – How to talk with your providers. In this episode, we discuss how we don’t know what we don’t know…That it’s okay and necessary to ask questions, talk with providers, ask for needs to be met…why it’s okay and important to ask questions…who can be an ally in the process…what kinds…
Karen Kleiman, MSW, LCSW Oh, this is such a great chat! We talk about helping pregnant and postpartum mothers, Karen’s scope of work, training providers so they can really help these moms and of course, her latest book “The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety”. Great stuff! Karen Kleiman,…
Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody Dispelling the myths of medication use in pregnancy and postpartum We are talking with Expert Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody about psychiatric medication during pregnancy and postpartum. We will go over some of the fundamental things it’s important to know about med use, risks to mother or baby for treated AND untreated illness, clear…
Sarah Randall, Psy.D. Coping with Perinatal PTSD We are talking with Dr. Sarah Randall today about PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) related to maternal mental health and how it can show up during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Trauma can result from a real threat to life, to a moment where a person feels that they…
Deb Rich, Ph.D. Understanding perinatal grief. We are talking with Dr. Deb Rich about pregnancy loss and neonatal loss. This is a very difficult topic for folks to hear about, but even harder for those families who are trying to deal with the loss of a child. Its so important for us to be talking about…