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Repost Postpartum Support International - Colorado

It’s not just moms. Perinatal Mood and Anxiety disorders affect new and expecting parents of all genders.

PSI offers specialized support groups for people with all gender identities. We’re here for you, and in our community, you’ll find someone who understands you 💙

What if we held the mother first? What if we held her so much that she could breathe out those worries - the ones wrapping those tight circles in her mind?
What if we asked her, how are you really doing?
And what if we held space for the answer - whatever it might be. What if we listened? What if we gifted her with our own stories; our own truths? What if she listened? What if we told her we knew it was hard because we've walked her walk? What if we weren't so quick to forget? What if we told her that we get it and that in all of that hard, you are doing so very well? What if we did that before we held the baby? And what if, in all of that space, she felt ready for us to hold the baby - because she felt held herself?

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The fourth trimester isn't something new parents are often taught about upfront, but they should be. Too often, new moms are left to figure out how to heal—and how to take care of a new baby—alone.

New mother and medical student Korrine Sky was confronted with this gap in information and the overwhelming feeling of being unprepared after giving birth in March. Though her pregnancy went smoothly, she felt under-informed.

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