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Where Should New Mothers Turn When They Feel Overwhelmed? - Dr. Dresner (VIDEO)

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Dr. Dresner discusses where new mothers can seek help if they are feeling overwhelmed.

Dr. Dresner:
It’s extremely common for new mothers to feel overwhelmed. I don’t think we anticipate it. We don’t prepare patients for it, but the first line of intervention would be your pediatrician or your pediatrician’s office, your obstetrician, if that’s somebody who you have a close relationship with, or the nurse in the obstetrician’s office, the hospital where you delivered, a lactation hotline at a hospital where there may be nurses available 24 hours a day to talk to you about, not just nursing issues, but feeding issues, sleeping issues, your own emotional adjustment.

There are a lot of opportunities for sort of quick intervention and evaluation that don’t mean you have to wait till things get really bad before you see somebody for help, and I would encourage new mothers to seek out whatever resources their physicians or caregivers, their hospitals, offer for them to provide support and stabilize them shortly after their delivery.

About Dr. Nehama Dresner, M.D.:
Dr. Nehama Dresner, M.D., is a licensed, Board-certified psychiatrist (in general psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine) with specialized training and nearly 20 years experience in Women's Mental Health and Medical Psychiatry. She is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is actively involved in medical education. A fellow in the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the America Psychiatric Association, she speaks locally and nationally on issues related to psychological aspects of women's health and medical psychiatry. Dr. Dresner's clinical specialty is psychosomatic obstetrics, and gynecology, women's emotional development, and psychiatric treatment of the medically ill.

Visit Dr. Dresner at Wellsprings Health Associates