2020 Mom is a national maternal mental health non-profit organization aggressively closing gaps in maternal mental health care.
Founded in 2011, we have studied the root causes and barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and we advance maternal mental health policy and practice solutions. We center the experience of mothers in all that we do.
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In this session, moderator Dr. Janelle Palacios, a nurse midwife, researcher, and storyteller originally from the F… https://t.co/oMbdkhEraA
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Leaders from the federal @HRSAgov, @HHSGov will address the Maternal and Women’s Health Portfolio, including driver… https://t.co/2dPy7ebkuj
The following articles caught my eye in the first part of February, most notably, we are close to having a pill form of brexanolone (Zulresso), called zuranolone. Zulresso was the first drug on the market developed specifically for maternal depression, which exists only in an intravenous form. We’re also highlighting an article from Health Affairs that describes an increase in PCP visits for mental health concerns, something we surely are seeing in obstetrics too. Finally, the tragedy in Massachusetts involving a suspected case of postpartum psychosis (likely triggered not only by lack of sleep, but the 10+ drugs this mother was prescribed) has inspired a lawmaker to introduce a bill to put such mothers in intensive treatment programs rather than in jail.