Depression During and After Pregnancy
Resources for Families

Here you will find links to resources about care, services, and support and to websites about depression during and after pregnancy.

Care, Services, and Support

• Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB): Prenatal Services. Hotline number to help pregnant women and mothers with newborns find free or low-cost services for themselves and their babies. Telephone: (800) 311-BABY (311-2229); (800) 504-7081 (Spanish).
  
  
• Postpartum Support International (PSI): Get Help. Find local PSI support coordinators, support groups, telephone support, and local events for women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and their families.
  
  
• Also see the Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families.
  

Websites

• KEY RESOURCE   Postpartum Support International (PSI). Information for women and their families and friends about perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, including risk factors, symptoms, and treatments. Contact information for state and local support groups. Free weekly phone chats led by informed and caring professionals. A helpline in English and Spanish for information, encouragement, and local resources.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Depression Among Women of Reproductive Age and Postpartum Depression. Information about depression symptoms, risk factors, and treatments and a checklist to help you talk to your doctor.
  
  
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA): Taking Care of Both of You. Information about perinatal depression and symptoms, talking to your doctor, treatment, and finding a support group.
  
  
• March of Dimes (MOD). Information in English and Spanish about postpartum depression.
  
  
• MedlinePlus: Postpartum depression. Links to information in English and Spanish about postpartum depression. Presents a bilingual fact sheet about emotional changes after having a baby. The fact sheet is written in English on one side. The other side is written in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, or Vietnamese.
  
  
• Pacific Post Partum Support Society. Information about perinatal depression, screening, taking care of yourself, treatment, relapse prevention and management, and what loved ones can do to support. Includes a story about a woman's journey of becoming a mother, her struggles, and ways she found support.
  
  
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). 2006. Depression During and After Pregnancy: A Resource for Women, Their Families, and Friends. Rockville, MD: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). [Booklet]. Available in English and Spanish.
  

Learn more about depression during and after pregnancy and medication use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Need more information? Use the collection of resources that library staff have put together for you and your family.

Depression During and After Pregnancy: Family Resource Brief, 2nd ed. (May 2013).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Contributors: Beth DeFrancis, M.L.S., MCH Library; Tracy Lopez, M.S.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewer: Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library [ADD REVIEWERS' NAMES].
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.