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Postpartum mental health: Where are we failing mothers?

Postpartum mental health: Where are we failing mothers?

The Pat Kenny Show vor 1 Monat

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The Lindsay Clancy case has raised very difficult questions about
the intersection of motherhood, postpartum mental health, and the
criminal justice system. It also raises a question closer to
home: how well do we actually recognise and respond to serious
mental health problems after women give birth here in Ireland?
Because for all the focus on the baby and the birth itself, the
postpartum period can present a range of physical and
psychological challenges, some of which can be very difficult to
see, and even harder to talk about. Joining Pat to do just that
is Aolish Gormley, Founder of Árdu, a maternal mental health
initiative based in Sligo and leading the Year of Care campaign