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Practice Guidelines Guidance

Online Resources

Websites

• Risk Factors of Postpartum Depression, Agrawal I, et al (2022)

• Postpartum Support International

• Helpful Resources Postpartum Support International

• Perinatal Mental Health for Women of Color

• Preventing Perinatal Mood Disorders: Supporting Women’s Physiologic Design in the Childbearing Continuum by Rachelle Garcia Seliga CPM, Jun 01, 2020. Innate Traditions Blog/Writings and Video @ Innate Traditions (dot) com.

• Pathologizing Maternal Mental Health Rachelle Garcia Seliga CPM

• The Mothers Who Can’t Escape the Trauma of Childbirth:  The Atlantic. (PTSD vs Depression)

• Healing the Trauma: Entering Motherhood with PTSD: Midwifery Today.

• Postpartum Progress

• Racial Disparities in Perinatal Depression Screening Addressed in Recent Study, WomensMentalHealth.org

• Pregnant Transgender Men at Risk for Depression and Lack of Care, Rutgers Study Finds

• Trans and non-binary pregnancy, traumatic birth, and perinatal mental health: a scoping review. International Journal of Transgender Health, Nov 2021.

• The Evidence on: Anti-Racism in Health Care and Birth Work by Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN & Ihotu Jennifer Ali, MPH, Evidence Based Birth

• Racial Disparities in Childbirth by Rebecca Dekker, Aug 15, 2017, Evidence Based Birth

• Vital Signs: Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Provider Discussions About Perinatal Depression — CDC, United States, 2018.

• Symptoms of Depression During and After Pregnancy. Data Brief by the Maternal, Child and Adolecent Health Division of the CA Dept of Public Health, 2018.

• The global burden of perinatal common mental health disorders and substance use among migrant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet, March 2023.

Podcasts

• Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders: Honest Mama’s Podcast

• Team Approach and Global Understanding of Perinatal Mental Health: Episode 96 Mom and Mind

• LGBTQ Perinatal Mental Health: Mom and Mind

Medline Articles

Search MEDLINE with Full Text in the NMI Media Library:

• Agrawal I, Mehendale AM, Malhotra R. Risk Factors of Postpartum Depression. Cureus. 2022 Oct 31;14(10):e30898. doi: 10.7759/cureus.30898. PMID: 36465774; PMCID: PMC9711915.

• Stewart DE, Vigod S. Postpartum Depression. N Engl J Med. 2016 Dec 1;375(22):2177-2186, commentary can be found in N Engl J Med 2017 Mar 2;376(9):895.

• Stewart DE, Vigod SN. Postpartum depression: Pathophysiology, treatment, and emerging therapeutics. Annu Rev Med. 2019 Jan 27;70:183-196.

• Schiller CE, Meltzer-Brody S, Rubinow DR. The role of reproductive hormones in postpartum depression. CNS Spectr. 2015 Feb;20(1):48-59.

• Frieder A, Fersh M, Hainline R, Deligiannidis KM. Pharmacotherapy of postpartum depression: Current approaches and novel drug development. CNS Drugs. 2019 Mar;33(3):265-282.

• Payne JL, Maguire J. Pathophysiological mechanisms implicated in postpartum depression. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2019 Jan;52:165-180.