I had the honor of attending the Postpartum Support International (PSI) 27th Annual Conference at the University of North Carolina (UNC) campus at Chapel Hill. The theme that year was: “Creating Connections between Communities: Practitioners and Science: Innovative Care for Perinatal Mental Health.” Researchers, clinicians, advocates, and survivors gathered to share both professional insight and personal experience. It was, at that time, the best-attended conference in PSI’s

This year again I have the honor of hosting Megan Daley! Megan discusses her challenges with perinatal mood disorders twice in her lifetime. Now pregnant with her third child, she talks about her concerns in this pregnancy for her postpartum health and how she is proactively creating a personal postpartum plan. To help others, Megan outlines resources that helped her through her dark times. She says: “The most important thing I ever did was finally put down the mask.” P

This post is part of an ongoing series of conversations with professionals in the perinatal mental health field. It is offered to share perspectives, not as clinical guidance. Biography: Suzanne Swanson, Ph.D., is an activist in many areas of Maternal Mental Health. Since 2006, she has been the Postpartum Support International (PSI) Minnesota Coordinator. By 2007, along with a collective group of perinatal mental health professionals, she helped form the Pregnancy and Po