How To Access Better Maternal Mental Health Care

How can we provide better mental health support for pregnancy, postpartum, and loss around pregnancy?

That's today's big question, and obviously in America in 2023, it's a loaded one, so I'm so thankful that my guest today is Simmone Taitt. She's the Founder and CEO of Poppy Seed Health.

Simmone experienced the vast gaps in emotional and mental support in American maternal healthcare while navigating her own path to parenthood after suffering multiple miscarriages, which she talks about today, with and without health insurance, like so many Americans.

In 2019, Simmone identified a better way forward for all birthing people, becoming a birth and full spectrum doula, and then launching Poppy Seed Health, a growing network of diverse, very qualified doulas, midwives, and nurses. They provide care within seconds, private care right in the app just when you need it the most.

If you've ever been a part of this journey as a pregnant person intentionally or not, as a partner, or in postpartum, whatever your path, you are probably intimately aware of how much and how often, often in the middle of the night, you just desperately need someone informed who can help answer questions around birth and postpartum planning, lactation support, general comfort, miscarriages, relationships, sleep, and so much more.

And we do it very, very poor job as a country of intentionally providing these essential services, often intentionally not providing it.

And so that's why I am so glad that Poppy Seed exists.

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