The Postpartum Hubsband
When a woman is suffering for postpartum depression, one of the things she needs most is a partner who will stand up for her needs when she cannot do it herself. In past, I’ve made some suggestions about how this care and concern might look. However, just because I have a husband, doesn’t mean I know anything about what makes them tick.
Author Karen Kleiman has a better idea. She wrote The Postpartum Husband to offer new fathers practical tips and suggestions for how to live with and support someone with PPD.
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Doctors Just Don’t Ask About PPD
Jun 6, 2007 at 11:15 pm
[…] be repeated in examining rooms elsewhere. I think the study is another sign that both women, their partners and community resource people need to be firm about demanding attention from doctors for PPD […]
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