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Pandemic Pregnancy Mental Health | One Woman’s Story
Pre-natal and post-natal anxiety is hard enough during the best of times, but throw in the pandemic and you have the double whammy of a major additional stressor and less support and connection to help manage mental health challenges. One new mom opens up about her experience navigating a Covid pregnancy with her pre-existing anxiety disorder. Thank you June for sharing this with us, I know so many moms can relate!
Mothering Through: How a Global Pandemic has Affected Perinatal Women | by Jennifer Delmaire
Through the lens of motherhood, these are complicated times. We are changed. Like it and prepared for it, or not. Pregnancy, postpartum and what comes next, redefined. While these trying times have found a way to highlight the strength, resilience, and determination of mothers in new and profound ways, we are also a community experiencing anxiety, depression, isolation, grief, loneliness, uncertainty, anger, fear, and lack of connection like never before.