1 in 5 new moms struggle with mental health

1 in 5 new moms struggle with mental health

Twenty percent of women experience mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, during pregnancy and the first year of parenthood. Kara Zivin, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan, is part of this statistic. She studies health policy and maternal outcomes, having chronicled her own experience with depression during pregnancy in a memoir. “When I became pregnant, I wondered how my preexis…