One of the greatest preventions is good postpartum support in the first 12 months. It is very important women’s physical and emotional needs are attended to and efforts are made by couples and their families to reduce conflict and stress for the new mom and the baby because early life experiences matter! It is a highly influential time for psychosocial brain development during the early years of a child’s life.
It is also fact that the human capacity to form attachment relationships is critically impacted by early social experiences which begin at birth.
Women need opportunities to talk about the birth and motherhood. We need to be having more frank discussions about the postpartum period to enable women to better understand and adequately plan for, after the birth. Our social, economic culture and medical systems do not realistically prepare women for postpartum. Media often over romanticize the experience as being no big deal an easy transition, hurry back to work, multitasking everyday routines and how to make your body look good after birth. This reality is very different for many postpartum moms!
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