Tara advises that policymakers look at rates of women who die by suicide after birth.
Transcript
My advice would be for those who decided that mental health – maternal mental health wasn’t important enough to fund. You know? Like, I’d probably give them a little – a piece of my mind. You know? [Laughter] I wouldn’t give them advice first. I’d just, you know? But no, like, they need to look at the numbers. I think they need to look more at the numbers, like how maternal mental health. Like, so my obstetrician said that this is – now, this is something I would have to look up. I didn’t look up the numbers myself for this. But postpartum, like, suicide after giving birth is very, very high for mothers. That it’s a real thing. You know? And it’s a life. Like, if you care, I would – I would want them – I don’t know. I don’t know really what advice. I would just get them to look at the numbers of, like, what are women going through postpartum.
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