Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she ...
Each year, between 11 and 20% of women, or around 600,000 women who give birth, suffer from postpartum depression in the U.S. alone. The true number is even higher because the CDC reports only on live births. Women who miscarry or whose babies are stillborn can also suffer from post...