Wednesday, April 22, 2009
By COLLEEN DISKIN
"MOTHER LOAD" COLUMNISTTen years ago, The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood tried to start a support group for postpartum depression but couldn’t find enough new mothers who wanted to join.
Now there’s enough interest that the hospital runs two such groups — one for stay-at-home moms in the mornings and another for working moms in the evenings.
It’s not that there are that many more women overwhelmed by the emotions of childbirth, says group leader Trudy Hereema, a maternal-child social worker at the Ridgewood hospital; it’s that more women are comfortable speaking up about it.
For that, we can all thank some of the brave women who have spoken up before them. Women like Sylvia Lasalandra......
NorthJersey.com: Their voices help fight against postpartum blues
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