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What If?

September 9, 2019 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

Last week a friend brought us supper, and sat and ate with us while our 14 month old Leona shrieked (because she doesn’t yet have words to tell us what she wants/needs) and cried (because molars hurt).  After my husband biked off to his Buddhist sangha gathering, my friend (who does not have children) said, […]

Filed Under: Community, Postpartum, Support Tagged With: Anxiety, Mental Health Network, postpartum depression, UCC, United Church of Christ

#highlowmum

May 6, 2019 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

Did you know that last week was Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week? I knew that May is Mental Health Month, and that we at the UCC Mental Health Network are encouraging congregations to recognize Mental Health Sunday.  But one of the blessings for me of social media has been learning about Maternal Mental Health Awareness […]

Filed Under: Postpartum, Stigma Tagged With: #highlowmum, Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Mental Health Awareness Month, Mental Health Network, postpartum depression, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

Reporting Back:
7 weeks of parenthood

August 27, 2018 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

My husband and I have been parents for almost seven weeks now, to a wonderful baby girl named Leona Joyce.  Back in April, I wrote a post about post- and peripartum depression, and the stigma I sensed and feared, as well as some scripture that gave me comfort. I’m only at the very beginning of […]

Filed Under: Postpartum, Stigma Tagged With: Mental Health Network, peripartum depression, postpartum depression, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

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