Tag: mental-health

• Portugal’s SNS Grávida Helpline | Baby News

  

  Portugal is a country in southwestern Europe, home to ten and a half million people though population is shrinking due to low immigration and low birth rate, around 1.38 children per woman. Based on what I have read, Portugal is a nice place to start a family because there is a nationalized health service, Serviço…

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 5, 2024

  Birth, news, Pregnancy

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• Netherlands Compulsory Contraception Then and Now | Baby News

  

  In the 1960s and 70s, the Danish government forced IUDs on Greenlandic women and girls against their will and they are now speaking out. This has highlighted more recent legislation in the Netherlands which effectively forced contraception on vulnerable women. Since the Compulsory Mental Health Act (Wvggz) in 2020, Dutch courts have ordered at least…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 23, 2024

  news, Pregnancy, Rabbit Holes, Video

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• Low-dose esketamine for postpartum depression | Baby News

  

  There is hope that a low dose injection of esketamine following childbirth may prevent post partum depression based on a study published in BMJ. Between June 2020 and Aug 2022, the researchers followed 361 mothers with no prior history of depression, interviewing them 18-30 hours after birth, at 7 days, and on day 42. They…

  Aradia Wyndham

  April 22, 2024

  Birth, news, Video

  depression, mental-health, motherhood, postpartum, postpartum depression, reseearch