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Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.

No one said being a parent would be easy, but now you don't have to go through it alone.

Actress and mother of two, Jamie Lynn Sigler, has teamed up with musician and stay-at-home mother-of-two, Jenna Paris, to create a safe place where you can confess your worst mommy sins and still feel like

you're killing the mommy game.

This is Mama Said with Jamie and Jenna.

Hello, on today's show, we have Dr. Brody, and our topic is postpartum depression, but more

importantly, an incredible research study that's going on about it.

Because did you know that one in seven mothers suffer from postpartum depression?

That is millions of moms, and you might be one of them.

Yeah, so researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

believe that there may be a link to genetics and mothers with PPD. Yeah, so they developed a research

study to give moms a way to fight back and search for a cure. It is called mom genes fight PPD. That's G-E-N-E-S,

like genetics. But to be successful, it needs 100,000 moms who have had PPD to participate.

So all you guys have to do is download the app, take a survey, and if you qualify, they send you a spit kit, a quick and easy DNA test that you could do at home.

Then you send it back, and the researchers will get to work.

Yep.

So go to mom genes fight pppd.org to learn

how your mom genes could make a difference. You're listening to Mama Said with Jamie and Jenna.

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