Amy PhillipsGuestSo I want to explain a little bit that one important factor here is that not everyone who has a baby experiences postpartum mental health issues per se.
Having a baby and being postpartum, so the term postpartum is the period after childbirth.
And now we call the fourth trimester, which is considered the 14-week period following giving birth.
And the fourth trimester is when women need the most amount of help and receive the least amount of care.
So while not everybody has postpartum mental health issues per se, what naturally happens is some level of anxiety.
You know, you grow a human, you make a human, you become a new human between the hormones and the body shifts and literally everything changes.

You change emotionally, like you said, hormonally, you don't realize the intense, how much hormones affect who you become and who you may not recognize anymore.
And then you add into that lack of sleep, which lack of sleep will lead anybody to struggle, period.
But then if you have these pieces of anxiety or intrusive thoughts and then it's lack of sleep and depending on your level of support, this is why every woman's situation is unique.
And so what I shared with you is that there's postpartum anxiety, there's postpartum depression, there's postpartum psychosis, which is much, much more rare.
Postpartum depression happens to one in eight women, whereas postpartum psychosis only happens in one to two of every thousand births.
So it gives you an idea of while postpartum depression and anxiety is common, not all women experience it, number one.
So I want to explain a little bit that one important factor here is that not everyone who has a baby experiences postpartum mental health issues per se.
Having a baby and being postpartum, so the term postpartum is the period after childbirth.
And now we call the fourth trimester, which is considered the 14-week period following giving birth.
And the fourth trimester is when women need the most amount of help and receive the least amount of care.
So while not everybody has postpartum mental health issues per se, what naturally happens is some level of anxiety.
You know, you grow a human, you make a human, you become a new human between the hormones and the body shifts and literally everything changes.

You change emotionally, like you said, hormonally, you don't realize the intense, how much hormones affect who you become and who you may not recognize anymore.
And then you add into that lack of sleep, which lack of sleep will lead anybody to struggle, period.
But then if you have these pieces of anxiety or intrusive thoughts and then it's lack of sleep and depending on your level of support, this is why every woman's situation is unique.
And so what I shared with you is that there's postpartum anxiety, there's postpartum depression, there's postpartum psychosis, which is much, much more rare.
Postpartum depression happens to one in eight women, whereas postpartum psychosis only happens in one to two of every thousand births.
So it gives you an idea of while postpartum depression and anxiety is common, not all women experience it, number one.
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