As part of packing and sorting and getting ready to move, I overcame my hatred of sorting through old papers and went through a filing cabinet. Near the back was a navy blue folder simply labelled “Baby.” It was a folder I started when I was pregnant and it still contained things like what kind of fish to eat (and not to eat) when pregnant and other information that I once paid attention to.
Also in that folder was a beige, tri-fold brochure on postpartum depression from our local health authority. I assume it came with the other information we got in the hospital that it was bundled with, but clearly I didn’t pay attention to it because (a) I don’t even remember seeing it and (b) fat lot of good it did me.
I’m sharing my thoughts on that brochure today over at Postpartum Progress, where I’m now a regular contributor (and pretty darn excited and proud about that, too).
