Andrea describes the need for a safe space for moms to get mental health care and support.

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That’s another thing, when women talk about how scary it is with a baby with no sleep in front of a pregnant woman, it makes it worse. But if you could somehow have the same place with nurses who are specialized in it – I mean the nurses who work in the neonatal care unit are unbelievable, they’re unbelievable. But they’re working mostly with women who’ve just had babies. They don’t have the time to – if they could train nurses and doctors to create a ward that caters specifically to this –if I had been with even one other woman experiencing this it would’ve made a world of difference. And you know what? Maybe when I had gotten to March and I made the mistake with the pills, maybe that wouldn’t have happened because I would’ve felt so less alone in what I was going through. And if there’s an entire floor of women like that I think that’s an incredible, incredible community. And then within that floor, if they could create programs for the day, you know, maybe let’s meet for an hour here to discuss this issue, let’s meet for an hour there with the babies all together. I mean there could be a place for the babies during the day where you could see them, a nursery maybe. I know it’s a far stretch, especially when you have public healthcare, but that’s what needs to happen. It needs to happen. Women need that.

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