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I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t have survived the first few years of motherhood without my partner-in-parenting—my fabulous husband—and the friends, family, babysitters, neighbours, and even strangers who helped along the way.

After decades of research on SSRI use in pregnancy we still have much to learn, but at its core, it's not about SSRIs, it's about supporting maternal mental health; something we often forget.

The maternal brain is not a never-ending reserve of power. Any brain will ‘dysfunction’ when it is overwhelmed and has too many to-dos. It can hit its limit, especially when it hasn’t been recharged.

I recently sat down with Emma Jane Unsworth, a bestselling author and mom of two, to talk about her memoir After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood (a must-read!), the stigma around maternal mental illness and ways to protect maternal health