Carina Fitch
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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Where we are now is that in terms of maternal health and well-being is in crisis.
We are the only developed nation with a rising maternal mortality rate.
One in five women will experience maternal mental illness.
That's 20% of the birthing population.
And suicide remains a leading cause of maternal death in the first year after birth.
And then we have gross racial disparities in maternal health outcomes with Black mothers dying at three to four times the rate of white mothers due to systemic racism and provider bias.
So we're at a crisis point.
Yeah.
As far as how well it's known, I think that postpartum depression is something that people know about now because thankfully it's more talked about.
But postpartum anxiety is actually more common than postpartum depression.
You also have postpartum OCD, postpartum bipolar.
There's all sorts of ways that mental illness can manifest.
The solution, I believe, is that mothers need a lot more support.
We need to let go of this perfect mother myth where mothers are held to this never-ending list of superhuman standards.
Yeah.
Like we're supposed to be infinitely patient while functioning on two hours of sleep or bake everything from scratch with all organic ingredients and take our kids to every extracurricular activity known to man to make them the best person that they can be while at the same time continually sacrificing our own wellness in the process.
And ultimately, that construction of motherhood comes from patriarchy.
It's a patriarchal construction of motherhood.
I think we need to redefine motherhood on our own terms.
And what that looks like for me is Motherfly, which is my name not only for my business,
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