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Sleep Medicine • Psychiatry • General Outpatient Psychiatry • Depression • Women’s Mental Health
How do you counsel breastfeeding parents with postpartum depression when sleep deprivation appears to be worsening mood symptoms?
How do you frame sleep protection as part of depression treatment without undermining breastfeeding goals? How do you navigate guilt, cultural expectations, or pressure from family or clinicians around breastfeeding?
Answer from: at Community Practice
My position is that breastfeeding is a sometimes difficult practical issue, not a medical or moral imperative. I try to normalize the difficulties of breastfeeding, based on my own experience and that of my daughters and sisters, countering the exploitation of anxiety around this issue with problem-...
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