Ryan Shelton

And why didn't you get it done last week?

What happened?

I love that explanation.

And let me tell you, when you have Edna, you have 100% undivided attention, focus, and you understand why.

You're awesome.

Anyway, so Dr. Edna Legabe specializes in perinatal and reproductive psychiatry, working with women through challenges such as infertility, PMS, anxiety relating to childbirth, perinatal loss, and adjustment to parenting.

Dr. Edna, so I'm about to go through her qualifications.

Ryan, just have a guess.

I'd like you to guess how long this, I don't know the answer, but I'd like you to guess how long this took.

Dr. Edna has a Bachelor of Surgery and Medicine, a Master of Psychiatry, a PhD, a Specialist Medical Training from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital, the Royal Women's Hospital, and the Joan Kerner Women's and Children's Hospital.

20 years plus of study?

Okay, so we are in very, very good hands.

So Dr. Edna's practice is built on the foundation that mental illness is the number one pregnancy complication and it's something that's very often ignored.

Focusing on spotting mental health issues early, Dr. Edna is interested in prevention to help mums stay well before, during and after birth.

In this episode, Dr. Ender will guide us through the concept of matrescence, what it is – it's a wonderful word, by the way – but what it is and how we can support women going through it as well as mental illness that women are at risk of during this period and how to navigate diagnosis and treatment.

And just before men listen to this, hit the eject button.

You just have to know this stuff.

This is –

It is just as important.

I would say even like potentially more important for men to understand this because when your partner is going through this, like for them to have to make sense of this, understand it, try and work through it, it's so much harder.