Can social media help maternal mental health?

Going online may fill a void for struggling parents, but can the internet ’s instant gratification fail to address deeper perinatal problems?She irritates your parents. She baffles your grandparents. The preoccupied young mum feeding, with one hand, organic sweet potato puree to her eager eight-month-old, and checking her Facebook notifications with her smartphone in the other. A stereotype which would pass for a member of theModern Tribe and one I ’m sure you already recognise. Perhaps she is closer to yourself than you would like to admit.Related:Postnatal depression: what the baby books don't tell you | Tania BrowneContinue reading...
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