Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we're going to be talking about

postpartum depression. As many as one in five moms will become depressed

after having a baby. That's a huge number that unfortunately seems to be on the rise. Today I'll be

talking with Dr. Kathleen Kendall Tackett about why postpartum depression happens, what it looks like,

and what can be done about it. Stay tuned.

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maternity pros to inform your intuition hello mamas and mamas to be i want to thank you once again

for all the love you're giving the show and send a quick reminder to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, even if that's not the way you usually listen to it, so we can get it in front of more and more and more mamas. If you want to go the extra mile, leave a review. I will be forever grateful. All right. So today I'm so happy to have Dr. Kathleen Kendall

Tackett to talk about postpartum depression on the show. Kathy is a health psychologist, an

international board certified lactation consultant, and the owner and editor-in-chief of Preclaras

Press, which is a small press specializing in women's health. She also specializes in

women's health research, including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology,

and her research interests include the psycho-neuroimmininology of maternal depression and

the lifetime health effects of trauma. She is fellow of the American Psychological Association

in Health and Trauma Psychology and past president of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology.

Kathy writes and publishes a lot. Listen to this. She's authored more than 370 articles or chapters

and is the author or editor of 24 books on maternal depression,

family violence, and breastfeeding.

Her most recent books include Psychology of Trauma 101 and the Science of Mother Infant Sleep.

She has four different websites, one of which is uppity sciencechick.com.

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