‘Care fractures after birth’

‘As a neurologist, I know the brain. Then my postpartum psychosis began.’

Barbara Decker at USA Today

After being “seized by an overwhelming, unwanted compulsion to throw myself and my baby into oncoming traffic,” says Barbara Decker, “I was diagnosed with postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis.” American mothers “die at three times the rate of women in other developed countries,” and “mental health complications are now the leading cause of pregnancy-related death.”...