Perinatal (Pregnancy and Postpartum)

Make Your Emotional Transformation Intentional

Having spent two years working in a hospital setting with OBGYN patients and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit parents, I have a lot of experience with this particularly beautiful and sensitive time of life.

A baby's 0-3 is an especially important time in their life, so it is useful for parents to have extra emotional support leading up to and during this period. Pregnancy and postpartum are huge events (whether it's your first baby or your fifth), so every emotion under the sun can come up. 

"What will I have to give up now that I'm having a child?" "Am I doing a good job?" "Why am I not more excited?" "How do I know my risk of postpartum depression and address this beforehand?" "How concerned should I be about these mood swings?"

There are only some of the many topics that can arise during the pregnancy and postpartum periods. Some of these questions may feel shameful or difficult to voice, especially if they're different from the messages society gives us about what you "should" be experiencing (and society tends to shame parents).

Pregnancy and postpartum bring up not just new feelings but also old unprocessed ones. Which means that pregnancy and postpartum gives us the unique opportunity to address past experiences that may have previously sat more in the background. For instance, pregnancy and postpartum give us the chance to process:

• Sexual

• Events that happened during previous pregnancies

• Your relationship with your own parents

My specialities include postpartum depression, posptartum anxiety and postpartum OCD, postpartum rage, and postpartum psychosis. They also include working with miscarriage and infant loss.