Painting, a young women sits bonneted in a bed with heavy curtains pulled aside, and an older white woman holds out a newborn in a white dress to a white man in a puritan-era black hat and fancy velvet jacket.
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A Brief History of “Bouncing Back”

So the world has witnessed yet another round of the Royal Baby bonanza — from tracking Meghan Markle’s maternity style, […]

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Pharmacological Innovation and the Desire to Simplify Postpartum Depression

At the end of March, Sage Therapeutics announced FDA approval for the intravenous and hospital-supervised use of their new postpartum […]

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Photo of a woman carrying an infant on her back in a colorful blanket/satchel.
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The Politics of Sobreparto: Beyond the Medical Dimensions of a Postpartum Condition

Migrant indigenous Andean women living in the lowland Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra often mention sobreparto (“following […]

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