Motherhood from the Eyes of a Reproductive Psychiatrist with Dr. Claire Smith

Previa Alliance Podcast

Previa Alliance Team

Mental Health, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Health & Fitness, Education

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In today’s episode Sarah sits down with Dr. Claire Smith, Reproductive Psychiatrist, to hear Claire’s experience from pregnancy to first year postpartum. As a Reproductive Psychiatrist everyday Dr. Smith treats women who experience depression, loss, infertility, and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum. But how does being a maternal mental health specialist come to play when you go down your own journey of pregnancy and postpartum. Listen in as Dr. Smith shares her journey. More about Dr. ...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, guys, welcome back to Prev Alliance podcast. This is Sarah, and I have our favorite
0:15.1	repatriress psychiatrist, Dr. Claire Smith with us today. I want to preference this, guys. This is not
0:20.7	going to be our normal
0:21.3	with her where it's all about education and we're hitting the hard topics. This is a good to know her
0:25.9	some more about her first year of motherhood. So Claire, welcome. Thank you. Good morning.
0:32.1	So before our listeners, I lose them too much of their going like, wait, what is this?
0:36.9	I just want to say, we have some really great episodes with you. I want them to refer of their, I'm going like, wait, what is this? I just want to
0:37.7	say, we have some really great episodes with you. I want them to refer back to you. If you're new to
0:41.3	us, we have one that we did. It was around Halloween of taking the scary out of reproductive
0:46.0	psychiatry. And then we did an intrusive thoughts one, which if you guys have never listened to
0:52.3	that, if you're pregnant or postpartum, highly, highly recommend.
0:57.0	That is, I think, a crucial one all moms need to hear.
1:00.2	Yeah, definitely.
1:01.5	And I'll talk more about intrusive thoughts in a few minutes.
1:05.1	So we will get to hear.
1:06.5	So introduce yourself for the new listeners.
1:08.8	We've got several new listeners of who you are and what's been new in your life since the last time we've heard from you.
1:16.4	Yes. So for anyone new, my name is Claire Smith. I'm originally from Tennessee, but I went to residency in Charleston, South Carolina at MUSC Medical University of South Carolina
1:30.0	and did a fellowship there in reproductive psychiatry and then stayed on faculty there.
1:36.2	So I wear a few hats, but most relevant to this podcast is that I'm a full-time reproductive
1:43.3	psychiatrist.
1:45.1	And I delivered on Leap Day of last year, so February 29th.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Previa Alliance Team, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Previa Alliance Team and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.