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In perinatal psychiatry, we consider two things at once: medication in pregnancy deserves careful, individual consideration and so do the risks of leaving illness untreated. Illness does not stay contained to the mother. It shapes the space her baby
When your second baby arrives, you are navigating two entirely different relationships at once, with two sets of needs, two children asking for different versions of you, often at the same time. Feeling divided, guilty, or like you are somehow faili
There are thoughts that feel impossible to say out loud because they feel so completely at odds with everything you want to be as a mother that the mind recoils from them. In psychiatry, we call this ego-dystonic. Which means it’s a thought
The good enough mother is a term coined by the psychiatrist and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, who spent his career watching mothers and babies. Instead of being the 'perfectly attuned' mother, he found it was the willingness to come back after the
The bond between a mother and her baby begins in the small conversations she has with her bump, in the way she imagines them, worries for them, begins to make room for them, in her home, in her life, in herself. This is called antenatal attachment:
In 1975, a psychoanalyst named Selma Fraiberg published a paper called Ghosts in the Nursery. It described something they kept observing in their clinical work with mothers and babies, that the unresolved experiences of a parent's own childhood had a

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