Posts by Perinatal Support Washington
Yes, This Is My Baby—Please Don’t Ask Me How
-By an anonymous mother I swing back and forth: what are my parenting stories to tell, and what are my babies’ private stories to disclose? Inevitably, I get kicked in…
Read MoreAn Interview with our 2025 Volunteer of the Year
By Rachael Katz The following is an interview with our Volunteer of the Year Rachael Katz. As a volunteer on the Warm Line, she is often one of the first…
Read MoreHelping a Family Become a “Forever Family” Through Adoption
By Zia F. Freeman, MA, LMHC I have worked in adoption, foster care, and provided clinical assistance with families for many years, as well as having run caregiver support groups,…
Read MoreHolding Space for Grief: Honoring Perinatal & Infant Loss
By Marquita Straus October is Perinatal and Infant Loss Awareness Month, a time for us to pause as a collective and acknowledge the profound grief experienced by families whose babies…
Read MoreAn Interview with Kiley Hanish, Founder, Return to Zero: HOPE
By Kiley Hanish Tell us a little about your organization, who it serves, and what need it fills In 2014, we released the film RETURN TO ZERO, a story about…
Read MoreDisaster-Proofing Parenthood: 5 Steps to Empower Pregnant and Postpartum Families
By Shakima Tozay, DSW, MSW, LICSW, PMH-C, CCM Imagine trying to evacuate a major community disaster, such as a wildfire, severe storm, or flooding, while being six months pregnant or…
Read MoreFacing Loss Within a Nest of Care
By Rikki Hinz About one month before the Nest of Care Perinatal Grief and Loss training cohort began, I had the tremendously confusing and painful, ambiguous loss that is the…
Read MoreThis World Breastfeeding Week, I’m inviting Palestinian Mothers to the Table
By Elizabeth Moore Simpson [Trigger warning: infant loss] “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever…
Read MoreNavigating Anxiety, Motherhood, and the Power of Perinatal Mental Health Care
By Maggie Meyers [Trigger warning: child loss] In 2016, I made a decision I thought was best for my future family: I weaned off my SSRI medication, which I had…
Read MoreA Letter on Immigration Resources from our PERC Program
Over the past few days, many of us have seen the footage: families being separated, violence carried out without regard, communities living in fear. Children are being exposed to trauma…
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