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PSP Mental Health Check-In: For Expectant Couples @ 7:30pm
Please join Park Slope Parents for a Mental Health Check-In for Expectant Couples with Founding Director of The Motherhood Center, Paige Bellenbaum, LMSW, on Thursday, May 21st at 7:30pm.
Coping with Covid, the Expectant Couple Experience: What expecting moms and dads are thinking and feeling during this challenging time, and skills and techniques to help them manage stress and anxiety! Let's talk!
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Paige will help us try to put the following in perspective:
- What expecting parents are feeling anxious about during this time.
- How to recognize if feelings of anxiety and sadness are normal or require additional support and treatment.
- Recent legislative decisions that have been made in the State of New York regarding delivery during Coronavirus.
- How to effectively use this time to prepare for the arrival of your baby.
- Skills and techniques to manage anxiety and stress and communicate more effectively as an expecting couple.
A few tips on Zoom Confidentiality:
1. If you wish, you can change your name in your Zoom Profile to protect your identity.
2. This Zoom Meeting will be set for participants to have no video unless you want to.
3. This session is only for PSP Members. Please do not share this invite or your log-in.
Paige Bellenbaum, LMSW, is the Founding Director and Chief External Relations Officer at The Motherhood Center of New York. After her first child was born, Paige suffered from severe postpartum depression that nearly ended her life. Once she began to heal, she became committed to fighting for education, screening and treatment for postpartum depression so that no more women would have to suffer silently. She drafted legislation in New York State that was championed by State Senator Liz Krueger, mandating hospitals to provide education on PMADs and strongly encouraging screening of all new and expecting mothers that was signed into law in 2014. Since then, Paige has been an outspoken advocate on the issue of postpartum depression and uses her own story as a tool for change. She has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, PBS Newshour and in Women’s Health, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and several other media outlets.