Today is Blog for the MOTHERS Act Day!!

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Today is Blog for the MOTHERS Act Day, sponsored by Postpartum Progress, BlogHer and Postpartum Support International! Ladies, please get blogging!! Your actions today will make a difference in the lives of all the new mothers created each and every day in America. (Update: Please tell your readers to keep calling if the lines are busy!! Don’t give up!!)

The truth is that our country is more than capable of treating more women more quickly and more effectively when it comes to postpartum mood disorders. We can do it. We just don’t. All it takes is will. A willingness among healthcare providers to further educate themselves and to screen for these illnesses. A willingness among insurers to help cover costs. A willingness among all those involved with childbirth education to lay out the truth.

I have the will to tell you what happened to me. I know hundreds of women who have the will to bare their souls and tell strangers about their most horrifying thoughts and their weakest moments … who have the will to stand there and take the closed-mindedness and judgments that come from some in order to help someone avoid going through what they went through. I know mothers like Joan Mudd and Carol Blocker and Helena Bradford who have the will to relive the deaths of their beautiful daughters over and over again just so that they can educate people about postpartum mood disorders.

I humbly ask you to have the will, today, to write about the MOTHERS Act for postpartum depression, and to call your Senators, and I am asking the United States Senate to find the will to help all of the new mothers created each and every day in America.

For more information on exactly how to participate today, click here and here. Here is a link to everyone who has posted so far (if I’ve missed you, shoot me an email):

13 Comments

  2. Ruta Nonacs, MD
    Ruta Nonacs, MD on October 24, 2007 at 9:59 am

    Thanks Katherine for all your support and dedication!
    I posted today at rutanonacs.com/blog21.

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  3. David Wescott
    David Wescott on October 24, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    As a former legislative assistant to a Senator, I can tell you it's very helpful if you include the bill number and title when you contact a legislator. It's definitely not required, but helpful.
    And it's perfectly appropriate to ask where the member of congress stands on the issue, and if she/he will cosponsor…
    go git'em…

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  6. Jenna
    Jenna on October 24, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Look at all these sites! What amazing support. Thanks for pioneering for us Kath.

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  7. candace Martin
    candace Martin on October 24, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    This is fantastic! I started blogging because in the middle of my PPD I was googling like crazy trying to find someone out there like me. I want people to hear my story (PPD twice and depression while pregnant with my second). I never want to forget. I want people to know they can get through this!!!

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  9. jjs2g
    jjs2g on October 25, 2007 at 3:53 am

    We've made a difference, already! Keep bloggin and keep calling.
    My own OCD story and other PMD info from Kansas City included in this blog.

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  11. amanda
    amanda on October 25, 2007 at 7:59 am

    I am so happy to have been able to participate in this campaign. I will continue to use my blogs and my own circles off the computer to increase awareness. Thank you for spearheading this!

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  12. Heather Cabot
    Heather Cabot on October 25, 2007 at 8:09 am

    Thanks for including The Well Mom in this effort. I think it is really important to spread the word about PPD. I hope the message got through to women who need help, as well folks on the Hill. Please keep me in the loop on other potential blog day topics.

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