There are WAY too many cases in the past couple of months where children are getting injured or killed. WAY too many. Hello, Senators and Congressman???!!!!!! Are you seeing this? Are you beginning to understand the necessity for better treatment for and research into postpartum psychosis? Why are you still shuffling around? What is the problem?

I am absolutely incensed. Make a stand, Congress. Pass the MOTHERS Act so we don't lose any more women or children!!!!!!!!!!!

It's happening in Connecticut —

According to the Hartford Courant, "The young mother accused of stabbing her children early Saturday may have been suffering from postpartum psychosis, a respected Hartford psychiatrist speculated Sunday … Dr. Harold I. Schwartz, psychiatrist-in-chief at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living, said … it is reasonable to assume that Carmela Ortiz, 22, was suffering from the rarest and most severe form of postpartum depression when, police say, she critically wounded her 2-year-old twins and 7-month-old baby … Ortiz used a knife to stab her three sons in their apartment … Police said the children were critically injured but are expected to survive … Postpartum psychosis does not happen suddenly, so there is time to intervene before a new mother hurts herself or her children, Schwartz said. One impediment to care has been that after a baby is born, doctors rarely ask new mothers about their frame of mind …"

It's happening in South Carolina —

From the Associated Press: "A mother accused of killing her twin sons has postpartum depression and should be released from jail to receive treatment, her attorney told a judge. Lakeia White, 20, was being held Friday on two counts of homicide by child abuse … Berkeley County sheriff's detectives said White admitted smothering her 9-month-old sons Devion and Trevon Wilson last month because they were crying and she didn't feel well." From the Charleston Post & Courier: "White already has been evaluated by a psychiatrist in Columbia and was subsequently admitted to the private facility Palmetto Lowcountry Behavioral Health in North Charleston for treatment. That was at Davis' behest, and he said doctors concluded that White had postpartum psychosis."

It's happening in California —

From the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Kristen Lawson, now 30, gave birth to her third child, a girl, five months ago. When news spread among Lawson's friends that she'd been arrested for trying to kill both daughters, everyone assumed, without being told, that she had been struck low by another postpartum episode. [She experienced postpartum depression with the birth of her first two children.] There was simply no other explanation for why Lawson – whom one friend calls 'the epitome of what a mom should be' – reportedly tried to drown the girls in a bathtub … Even the police say postpartum depression – or some sort of mental collapse – appears to be the culprit for Lawson's behavior." Thank God she didn't succeed, but now Ms. Lawson is forbidden from ever going near her children again.

Do something, Congress!