Partners-Dads, Moms and Parents
Holding 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 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 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 MoreSumi’s Story
I was 28 when I had my first baby, when most of my peers were just meeting lifelong partners. The pregnancy went smoothly until the last trimester, when I was…
Read MoreA Conversation about new fatherhood with Nathan Friend, our Warm Line Dad Specialist
Tell us a little about yourself and your background and why you choose to work at PS-WA I am a father to three young children ages 2, 5, and 8.…
Read MoreAn Interview with Instagram Stars @mamapsychologists
Chelsea and Caitlin, the famous duo behind @mamapsychologists (https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychologists/) were kind enough to grant us an interview about Perinatal Mental Health, barriers to care, organizations filling the gap in resources,…
Read MoreMeet Dr. Gore!
Tell Us What Brings You to Perinatal Support Washington: My personal and professional background converges here at PS-WA, in a mission to bring about meaningful change in perinatal mental health.…
Read MoreVolunteer Spotlight -Shannon from the Warm Line!
The Parent Support Warm Line is often our entry point to all of the services we offer. The Warm Line is answered by staff and volunteers who share life experiences…
Read More“Dads Grieve Too”: 5 Ways to Acknowledge and Support Grieving Fathers in the Aftermath of Pregnancy and Infant Loss
By Shakima “Kima” Tozay, LICSW, PMH-C, CCM, CDP© The Silent Experiences of Grieving Pregnancy Loss Families impacted by pregnancy loss (i.e., miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, or SIDS death) face stigma,…
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