How do you counsel breastfeeding parents with postpartum depression when sleep deprivation appears to be worsening mood symptoms?

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-...

I like to invite partners or support people to an appointment to have a meeting about sleep as a team. I encourage thinking about sleep as medicine and a very powerful tool to treat and reduce the risk of postpartum depression, anxiety, bipolar mood episodes, etc. My goal for patients is that they c...