08/13/2026
I’ve been talking quite a bit about postpartum mental health lately, and tonight I decided to go live.
Nearly 200 women showed up. We talked about postpartum depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, postpartum psychosis, the gaps in postpartum care, and what women actually experience after they go home with their babies.
I could have stayed on there talking to these women all night. This is the part of nursing that lights me up.
Pregnancy is filled with appointments. We monitor mom and baby closely for months. Then you have your baby, go home, and suddenly there can be this huge gap in care during one of the biggest physical and emotional transitions of your life.
Tonight reminded me why I started Beyond Birth Wellness in the first place.
I want to help bridge that gap.
I’ve been thinking about what postpartum support could look like outside of the traditional office visit. Home visits. Virtual check-ins. A nurse checking on YOU, not only the baby.
How are you healing?
How are you sleeping?
How are you feeding?
How are you coping?
Do you feel like yourself?
Do you feel supported?
Are you having thoughts that scare you?
Do you know what’s normal and when you need help?
Sometimes moms need education. Sometimes they need reassurance. Sometimes they need someone to recognize that something isn’t right and help connect them with the right care.
I don’t have every detail figured out yet.
But tonight made one thing very clear to me.
I want to be part of making postpartum care better.
So I want to hear from moms.
If you could have had a postpartum nurse check in with you after you came home, either in your home or virtually, would you have wanted it?
And what do you wish someone had checked on, asked you, or helped you with?
