Emotional Well-being Postpartum / Raising Awareness about PMAD
- Oct 7, 2016
Your Emotional Well-being Postpartum/Raising Awareness about Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders:
Contributed by Dr. Laura Venuto, a psychologist in New York City specializing in maternal mental health. She has a private practice on the Upper East Side.
Feeling exhausted? Irritable? Anxious? You’re not alone. While the postpartum period can be a wonderful and exciting time for some mothers, for others, it is an emotionally challenging experience. Too often, this period of time is romanticized by the media and women whose children are grown, as they seem to have blocked out all of the memories of sleep deprivation, explosive diapers, financial and/or marital stress that often come with parenthood.