Postpartum Progress News Archives

Stella & Dot Sale To Benefit Postpartum Progress

By Katherine Stone April 22, 2013 2 Comments

A message to you from Warrior Mom Laurie Syphard:

You’re invited to participate in an ONLINE-only Stella & Dot Fundraiser for Postpartum Progress Inc., a public charity that was created to improve the support and services for pregnant and new mothers with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders like postpartum depression. Stella & Dot jewelry and gifts have been seen in Lucky Magazine, InStyle and on countless celebrities. Designed in New York and San Francisco, the collections are so irresistible and affordable, you’ll be certain to find a little something special – maybe even a thoughtful gift for Mom – Mother’s Day is 12th!!

The Stella & Dot stylist for this event, Laurie Syphard (a Warrior Mom herself!), will be donating 100% of the proceeds generated from this event to Postpartum Progress, Inc. as a THANK YOU from Warrior Moms and their families for all of the educational resources and support that this amazing organization provided to them when they needed it most.

Please join us and SHOP ONLINE in support of Postpartum Progress, Inc:
http://www.stelladot.com/ts/yy3o5

April 22, 2013 9:40 am Filed Under: Postpartum Progress News

The Postpartum Progress Pipeline

By Katherine Stone February 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

You haven’t heard from me much this week, mainly because I’m doing back end computery-internetish-type stuff. Gotta make sure Postpartum Progress keeps running and running STRONG.

First, I moved our subscription system over to Feedblitz this week and have started adding all of you who’ve requested to be added to the subscription list. A couple of things:

1) In moving over from Feedburner to Feedblitz, about 140 people’s subscriptions wouldn’t move over. I was given the message “pending subscription too old” yet it appears many of you in the “subscription too old” category only recently tried to subscribe. I have no idea what the problem was/is, and I’m SO sorry. You were probably wondering why no one had ever responded to your subscription request — I never even knew about it. Anyway, I am going to add the email of each person on that list back into the subscription system, with the assumption that you’d still like to subscribe and somehow Feedburner screwed it all up. (Another reason why I’m so glad to be leaving Feedburner.)

2) I’m working on the look of the email, what time you receive it and what’s in it. Right now, it’s getting sent overnight so you’ll have it in the morning. If that works for you, cool. If you have a better idea, share it in the comments below. If you have anything else you’d like to share about what’s in the email — what you’d like to see added or removed — let me know. I’m open to making this work as well as possible for as many of you as possible. Please be patient with me as I try to get it in tip-top shape in the next week or two.

3) Many of you, in the emails you’ve sent me asking to subscribe, have said such kind things about Postpartum Progress and how it has helped or is helping you, and I just want to send one big thank you and giganto hug to all of you. You really don’t know how much it means to me when you say these things!!

ALSO, next week we will be debuting a new advertising system – can’t tell you much about it until it shows up on Monday. (Top Secret!) You will be seeing more ads on this site, in the sidebars and probably above the header as well. Why? Because advertising generates money so we can do even more to support moms with postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum psychosis and more. Just know that all ad revenue goes to our nonprofit, and it will help us keep meeting our mission to help the mamas!!!

I feel like there’s probably more I need to be telling you, but I can’t think of what it is at this moment. Brain freeze. So for now, love you all and keep fighting the good fight!

February 1, 2013 4:00 pm Filed Under: Postpartum Progress News

CNN Takes A Look At Postpartum Depression

By Katherine Stone October 18, 2012 10 Comments

So CNN came to my house a while back. They wanted to do a segment on postpartum depression. Afterwards I didn’t hear anything, so I just moved on. Then last night Amber Koter-Puline of Beyond Postpartum sent me a link to this:

IFRAME Embed for Youtube

I have to say I’m thrilled. I’m thrilled they took so much time and care with it, and didn’t try to sensationalize the topic of postpartum depression as the media so often does.

Many thanks to Joyce Joseph at CNN for putting this together. I hope lots of you watch it and click the thumbs up over on YouTube. I want the media to know how important it is to tell positive stories about postpartum depression. Stories that show that it’s common. That all kinds of moms get PPD. That we get better with treatment.

I also hope you’ll take the time to share it with women who may need help or organizations that might find it useful. This is SO important. I’m hoping moms see it so they’ll know they can get help, and so they’ll know Postpartum Progress exists as a resource for them, and in turn get linked to all of the other resources out there.