“In an ideal world women would get home visits or their family members would get paid leave to attend to them,” says 4th Trimester Project Investigator Dr. Alison Stuebe. “If we’re not going to have that, we need some touchpoint from the health care system to replace that village that is no longer part of our culture.”
4th Trimester Investigator Dr. Kristin Tully adds that women’s emotional health is a crucial part of intersectional postpartum needs.
