83: Maternal Health - What Moms & Therapists Need To Know

Therapy Chat

Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

Social Sciences, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 83 of the Therapy Chat Podcast with host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. In this week's episode, I speak to Dr. Kat Kaeni about the issue of Maternal Mental Health, which is all about your mental health during conception, pregnancy, miscarriage or loss, birth and postpartum.

Dr. Kat is a psychologist, who helps you find ways out of suffering or confusion and into wellness. People go to her psychotherapy practice when they are struggling with things in their life and want to feel better. Her style of working with people is to be real and keep therapy down to earth. In her sessions, she uses compassion, insight, and empathy in addition to her education and training to guide your healing. Her belief is that therapy should not be a mysterious process. She believes that you have the ability to get better. Sometimes we just need a little help; sometimes we need a lot of help.

You may have heard of postpartum depression already. There are other things that most folks don’t know about…It’s not always rainbows and puppy dogs, like we are meant to think it’s “supposed to be”. For about 20% of women, the transition into parenthood can lead to severe mood changes. There are things that don’t go as planned such as: Pregnancy or postpartum depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD and less frequently, bipolar disorder or psychosis. These are serious, but very treatable conditions.

In this episode, Dr. Kat talks about how this is a more common issue than people realize, how you can identify the symptoms of maternal mental health and ways in which to prevent these disorders.

Resources

https://drkaeni.com

http://momandmind.com

http://www.postpartum.net

http://www.postpartumprogress.com

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ppd-gone/id529141505?mt=8 (PPD Gone App)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Therapy Chat Podcast, Episode 83.
0:04.2	This is the Therapy Chat Podcast with Laura Reagan, LCSWC.
0:11.0	The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional.
0:18.3	And now, here's your host, Laura Reagan, LCSWC.
0:24.0	Okay. Hey, welcome back to therapy chat. I'm your host, Laura Reagan. And today's episode is on a subject,
0:44.8	which is really important, extremely important. It's the subject of maternal mental health.
0:51.9	When I was a young mom, I was only 24 when I had my first child. And my way of
1:00.8	thinking about life at that time was so simple. And my life in general was pretty uncomplicated.
1:07.7	Other than having a baby, being a wife, that was pretty much it. That was all I had going on at the time.
1:16.0	I wasn't in my career yet. And all I had to focus on was taking care of my baby. The process of
1:24.8	giving birth was really different from what I expected. I remember feeling what a loss of
1:31.2	control it was when I had this birth plan and things didn't go exactly as I thought they were going to.
1:38.0	But I got through that overall okay and had a healthy baby. The next day after my son was born and he had been in my room
1:48.8	all night, I was so exhausted, so scared about not knowing how to take care of a baby. I didn't
1:58.3	even know how to change a diaper. And for whatever reason,
2:02.1	the nurses weren't really very patient with my not knowing what was going on. I remember I didn't
2:09.6	know that the diaper was wet because the disposable diapers are so absorbent. I thought my baby wasn't peeing, even though he actually
2:20.6	was, and it turned out that the diaper was soaked, but I didn't know that. So I thought I was having
2:28.5	problems with breastfeeding, even though he, we weren't, fortunately, and I know many people struggle with that.
2:36.9	But I remember on the day we were going to take him home, I was laying there.
2:45.3	I think I didn't sleep the whole night because I kept having to wake up, feed the baby,
2:52.4	change the baby. Well, I wasn't changing him because I thought he had no pee. But wake up, check to see if he had gone to the
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