Pittsburgh behavioral health docs push for passage of postpartum screening bill

Pennsylvania's existing monitoring system for at-risk children covers a number of things, from low birth weight to lead poisoning to support for infants born into potentially dangerous environments, including children born to chemically dependent mothers, homeless children and infants who suffer from abuse and neglect. What it doesn't cover is monitoring for babies born to the estimated 21,000 women in the state who suffer from postpartum depression. "In my mind, postpartum depression poses such…
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