QUICK SURVEY!
Respond to this email with the letter that fits you best:
A. I love listening to podcasts on perinatal health.
B. I listen to podcasts but not anything from my field of expertise
C. I've got zero time to listen to podcasts!
In Today's Issue:
- The gap between mental health diagnosis and physiological reality
- Why traditional perinatal training fails mothers at the root level
- How one training fills what medical education leaves out
A client came to me after eight months on three different medications for "severe postpartum depression."
Nobody had checked her thyroid, ferritin, B12, or vitamin D. Nobody asked what she was eating.
When we finally got comprehensive testing? Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Ferritin practically undetectable. Severe B12 depletion. Cortisol flatlined.
Was she depressed? Yes. Was the root cause psychiatric? Not even close.
Podcast Listen: What Gets Missed in Standard Mental Health Screening →
Iron deficiency affects 50% of postpartum women. B12 deficiency is extremely prevalent in breastfeeding mothers. Thyroid dysfunction affects up to 25% of new mothers.
Every single one creates symptoms identical to depression and anxiety.
Yet less than 10% of mothers are screened for these before psychiatric diagnosis.
Here's what happens instead: Mom shows up to her six-week checkup. She's handed a questionnaire asking "Have you felt sad? Trouble sleeping? Anxious?"
Of course she has—she just had a baby. Instead of investigating why, she's labeled and medicated.
No blood work. No nutrition questions. Just "This is classic postpartum depression."
The Perinatal Mental Health Training is open and currently the only way to join Postpartum University's community.
Here's what's at stake: Every day you wait, mothers in your community are being misdiagnosed. They're spending months or years on medication that masks symptoms while thyroid dysfunction progresses, while nutrient depletion compounds, while their bodies scream for help that nobody hears.
You became a provider to help people heal, not manage symptoms indefinitely.
This training gives you what traditional education withheld—the ability to recognize when "depression" is actually iron deficiency, when "anxiety" is blood sugar crashes, when psychiatric labels are covering up medical conditions.
The mothers you'll see next week deserve a provider who looks deeper.
From a recent graduate: "This completely changed my practice. I used to refer every anxious mom for psychiatric evaluation. Now I investigate first—outcomes I never thought possible without medication. This should be required for everyone working with postpartum women."
YES! Take me to the Perinatal Mental Health Training!
Together, we're going to stop watching mothers suffer from preventable misdiagnosis. Learn to see what everyone else is missing.
Stay fierce, stay rooted,
Maranda Bower
CEO & Founder of Postpartum University®
www.PostpartumU.com
