Air Force Spouse Patience: Two Off-Base Births, Managing Deployments, PPA/PPD, and Postpartum Support International
Description
In today’s episode we’ll be hearing from Air Force spouse Patience, who shares her two off-base birth stories. One birth took place at a duty station with lots of close friends and neighbors, and the other took place during COVID at a new duty station, and with an unexpected deployment three months postpartum, so she discusses how that impacted her postpartum experience. Patience is Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a specialty in perinatal mental health, and she also works with Postpartum Support International, both with military families specifically and through the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color.
Website/blog: www.whoamamas.com
IG: whoamama_blog
FB: https://www.facebook.com/WHOAMAMABLOG
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patience-riley-ncc-lpc-pmhc-bb948521/
Postpartum Support International: https://www.postpartum.net/
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