Episode 68: Dr. Sarah Rubin on Postpartum Depression in Global Contexts

Episode Summary

We sit down with Dr. Sarah Rubin to talk about her research on motherhood and postpartum depression in South Africa. Sarah’s work asks the questions a lot of postpartum care does not, especially about how culture and social support shape the experience of new mothers in under-resourced communities.

We get into the challenges of measuring postpartum mental health when the diagnostic tools were built somewhere else, what we miss when we frame postpartum depression as purely medical, and how birth professionals can use a wider lens in client care without abandoning the medical scope. Sarah is rigorous and unhurried in her thinking.

Useful for any childbirth professional supporting families through postpartum mental health, and for anyone interested in how global research changes how we hold the question.

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