Mental Health

  • Understanding Postpartum Psychosis

    Understanding Postpartum Psychosis

    If you’re a new mum, postpartum psychosis is a possibility, and something that affects many women each year. This article will explore more about this condition, some of its predominant symptoms, how it can affect your baby, and what you...

  • Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

    Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

    What is Perinatal OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)? When a woman suffers from OCD during pregnancy, psychiatrists call this perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder (perinatal OCD.) Some women may suffer from OCD before pregnancy; however, pregnancy or birth can trigger OCD for others.  A first-time...

  • eating disorders in pregnancy

    Anorexia and Bullimia

    Pregnancy and Eating Disorders Eating disorders and pregnancy go hand-in-hand. For many women, pregnancy causes the most significant changes in their bodies since puberty; as a result, it can cause severe body image and mental health issues. Many eating disorders—such...

  • Perinatal anxiety

    Perinatal anxiety

    While pregnancy is still viewed by our society as almost a perfect, idyllic period of a woman’s life, the truth can be very different. The unprecedented hormonal and bodily changes of pregnancy, in fact, can cause several mental health concerns....

  • Maintaining mental wellbeing during pregnancy

    Maintaining mental wellbeing during pregnancy

    Pregnancy can and should be an incredibly special journey towards an even more special destination: motherhood. However, pregnancy also comes with a lot of physical and emotional changes and challenges, which means that not every woman will enjoy these unique...

  • tokophobia

    Tokophobia

    While giving birth to a baby is one of the most natural events to happen to a person, it can also become very complicated, very quickly, even in our modern times. When discussing childbirth, it’s important to address topics such...