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Down to Birth - #34 | Postpartum Depression: Interview with Jen Schwartz of Motherhood Understood

#34 | Postpartum Depression: Interview with Jen Schwartz of Motherhood Understood

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07/01/20 • 40 min

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Jen Schwartz is the founder and CEO of Motherhood Understood, a community for women affected by pregnancy and postpartum mental health issues.

Jen had the perfect fairy tale vision of what life with a baby would look like. But, almost immediately after giving birth, everything felt different and she knew something was not right. She tells of how her mother described “the light going out of her eyes.”

Today, she shares with us her journey through both postpartum depression and anxiety and how her recovery inspired her passion for helping to inform, support and heal the lives of other women who’s postpartum mental illness may otherwise have remained hidden in the dark.

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07/01/20 • 40 min

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Down to Birth - #34 | Postpartum Depression: Interview with Jen Schwartz of Motherhood Understood

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Your coping mechanisms that you've had up to this point were great. They've gotten you this far. But none of these coping mechanisms that have made you good at life now work for having a baby. And so you're left like, you know completely naked and bear.
I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of HypnoBirthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trisha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. And this is the Down T

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