The first consensus recommendations for the use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists during preconception, pregnancy, and the postnatal period in women with diabetes have been published.

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New mothers will gain up to 72 hours of funded postnatal hospital care by July 2029.

We want the Government to fund guaranteed, universal access to post-partum support for every mother during the first year of their baby’s life, including practical and emotional support for appropriately trained professionals such as Postnatal Doulas regardless of their ability to pay.

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În Săptămâna conștientizării depresiei post-partum, psihiatrul Vlad Stroescu explică, într-un interviu publicat de HotNews, de ce este important un screening postnatal, cât de mult este influențată depresia postnatală de realitatea socială în care trăiește mama, ce presupune în realitate tratamentul depresiei postnatale și ce rol au psihoterapia, medicația și sprijinul familiei. Una din cinci femei …

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From addressing breastfeeding difficulties to postnatal anxiety, there are gaps in Australia's post-partum care, particularly in regional areas.

**_Having a newborn left Labor Senator Marielle Smith feeling helpless and with postnatal anxiety. She wants more women to share their story._** There isn’t a moment in my life where I have felt more powerful than when I first held my baby son Benjamin in my arms. I remember so vividly the sense of relief, the explosion of love and the feeling that I could do absolutely anything. But that sense of power didn’t last for long. In the days and weeks that followed, I felt the most helpless I had ever felt. Breastfeeding was extremely difficult for me. The pain was agonising. Holding my baby in my arms, so desperate to feed and nourish him, I felt like such a failure. It’s not surprising that I ended up with post-natal anxiety as a result. Yet I was one of the lucky ones. I found a wonderful lactation consultant, Robyn, who literally held my hand until I got breastfeeding back on track, and as a result I was able to go on to feed my baby for a year. But I am extremely cognisant that I was able to access this support because I lived in a capital city like Adelaide, and because I could afford to pay for it privately, something I know isn’t accessible to many women. Good postpartum health care should _never_ be a matter of luck. It should not depend on where you live or whether you can afford the care you need. Yet for many women, that is the reality. Eight years on from the birth of my first child, I now hold a seat in the Senate. And I’m determined to use it to drive change here for women and their families. That’s why in August, I moved a motion in the Senate to establish a new Select Committee to inquire into postpartum care in Australia, as well as a number of other very important women’s health issues including fertility and women’s pain. Since then, I have been overwhelmed by the number of women, clinicians and experts who have reached out asking to be involved. It is painfully clear to me that too many women have been suffering and have failed to receive the care and support they need. Now is the time for them to have their say. photo credit: Auspic Submissions are open until 9 October, and they do not need to be overly long or formal. It could look like a letter to the Committee, sharing a personal story. It might address a woman’s experiences of pain, fertility care or the postpartum period. We’re interested in learning more about the barriers to affordable, timely and appropriate care, what is working, and what needs to change. We want to hear about the gaps, and fresh ideas for how things could be better. I know sharing a personal story can be difficult. It was hard for me to share my own in such a public way. There is still a lot of stigma that surrounds this part of a woman’s health journey. But lived experience is powerful – and I know together, by sharing our experiences we can build an evidence base that makes a compelling case for change. We have seen such incredible progress on women’s health in recent years, with the Albanese Labor Government’s landmark $792 million women’s health package that has seen new contraceptives and hormone replacement therapies added to the PBS, more training for doctors, greater investment in pelvic pain and endometriosis clinics and longer medical appointments for women, among many other measures. These changes were possible because so many women raised their voices, fought through stigma and called for change. I’m urging women across Australia – please share your story and be a part of this work. Your voice is powerful – and it can lead to change. In this effort, I’ll be standing right beside you. Share this by Senator Marielle Smith 4 hours ago ## Stay Smart! Get Women's Agenda in your inbox * Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. * Email SUBSCRIBE ## Latest news ### ‘I’m passing the torch on’: Larissa Waters steps down as Greens leader ### A woman founder just sold her AI startup to a woman CEO for $8.2 billion in a deal set to challenge the male-dominated sector ### We cannot wait for more tragedy to take perinatal mental health seriously ### Women ‘with longer skirts’ make better wives? These politicians are fed up with sexist comments ### Moana Hope: I built my career long before I played AFLW ### Podcast: Why it’s time to quit being nice

Stressors experienced during the postnatal period may increase vulnerability to mental health disorders, including postpartum depression and anxiety. In rodents, maternal separation (MS) has been shown to alter behaviours in dams, but these observations have been made almost exclusively in rats and thus robust mouse models of postpartum mental health disorders using this stressor remain limited. Here we first examined, in mice, the effects of MS on maternal caregiving and on anxiety- and depressive-like behaviours. As stress-induced inflammatory activation in the gut-brain axis has been associated with behavioural alterations in non-postpartum contexts, changes in pro-inflammatory cytokines and tight junction proteins in the brain and intestinal tract were also examined. Female C57BL/6N mice were assigned to a No Separation (NS) or a MS condition that consisted of 3-hour daily separation sessions from postnatal days (P) 2 to 14. Maternal care behaviours were assessed on P3 and P7, followed by anxiety- and depressive-like behaviours on P22 and P23, and the collection of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and colon on P24 to determine the expression of selected genes. Caregiving patterns in MS dams fluctuated throughout the early postnatal period. Although behaviours and gene expression outcomes remained unchanged by MS, grooming time in the splash test was correlated with the expression of different genes in the mPFC. These findings suggest that C57BL/6 mouse dams may be less sensitive to the actions of MS on behaviour and on brain and intestinal markers of inflammation and barrier permeability, at least when examined shortly after weaning.

Our readers told us that not enough is being done to support women struggling during and after their pregnancy.

Our readers told us that not enough is being done to support women struggling during and after their pregnancy.