A NEW SURVEY ASKING 200,000 MOTHERS IN THE U.S. TO RAISE THEIR OWN MENTAL HEALTH. 1 IN 12 SAID IT WAS POOR OR FAIR. THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE FROM JUST NINE YEARS AGO, 2016, WHEN THE RATE WAS 1 ...

“During my pregnancy, I was just like in a high. I was like blissfully high, amazingly happy,” said Bronx mother Milagros Zapata. Zapata was so excited during her pregnancy that it never crossed her ...

Maternal mental health in the U.S. is in a free fall, dropping from 38.4% to 25.8% over the past eight years according to a new JAMA study. Alarmingly, mental health conditions are currently the ...

Maternal health in New York state is at a crisis point. For some, the perinatal experience goes smoothly, but for many others, childbirth brings severe health issues and negative outcomes. In New York ...

This week, JAMA Internal Medicine published the results of a large new study that tracked mothers’ health from 2016 to 2023. It found that maternal mental health declined significantly over the past ...

Limited access to mental health care, rising substance use disorders and increasing income inequality are three likely reasons that young women and mothers are reporting declining mental health. But ...

Intrusive thoughts and psychotic-like experiences among new parents are far more common than previously thought—according to ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Listen up, kids of all ages: Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11! Mother’s Day became an official US holiday ...

Rehabilitating the Israeli psyche. A national plan is urgently needed. The ongoing war has exposed a disturbing reality that can no longer be ignored: Israel is facing an unprecedented mental health ...

The saying ‘it takes a village’ exists for a good reason: bringing children into the world and then raising them is an almighty task. It’s why many parents find the help of family and friends to be ...

It was March 30, 2023. Since Maya’s death, her mother, Hilary Cassady, has become an advocate for youth mental health, raising flags about young people using FOIs to access their charts – and risking ...