Main description:

* Written in an accessible style with pregnant and postpartum women in mind.
* The short chapters, activities, and format lends itself to sleep deprived new parents with poor attention spans
* Provides real skills that pregnant women and new parents can learn to decrease debilitating symptoms.
* Uniquely focuses on both the pregnancy and postpartum period unlike most books in the market, and is inclusive in addressing the range of all mood symptoms a woman may experience during pregnancy and postpartum, not just postpartum depression.
* Chapters include updated and inclusive language that is culturally sensitive and includes same sex partners, gender non-conforming parents, and adoptive parents.
* Includes exercises, graphics, and information boxes throughout.

Contents:

Part 1: Helpful Information-Empowering You With Education 1. How to Get the Most Out of This Workbook 2. What's Going on With Me? Breaking Down the Differences Between Baby Blues and Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders 3. Learning More About Your Moods: No, Seriously, What's Going on With Me? 4. Risk Factors and Screening: Why me, and What Next? Part 2: Building Tangible Skills to Help You Weather the Storm 5. Sleep and Self-care: Tangible Ways to Climb out of the Black Hole 6. Attachment and Bonding: Creating a Secure Foundation With Your Baby While In the Middle of Your Storm 7. Mom Guilt and Other Mind Battles: How to Manage Your Thoughts, Moods, and Behaviors Using Cognitive Behavioral Skills 8. How to Manage Your Really Awful Thoughts: Name Your Dragon to Slay Your Dragon 9. Role Changes, Building Support and Improving Effective Communication Skills: How to Build and Strengthen your Village 10. Mindfulness, Meditation, Relaxation: How to quiet the storm within Part 3: Additional Factors-Aspects of Your Life That Can Impact Your Mood 11. Embracing All of You: How Your Culture and Identity Intersects With Your Mental Health 12: How's Your Partner Doing? (Yes, They Can Struggle Too!) 13: Crying, Low Sex Drive, Irritability and More: How Your Hormonal and Biological Changes Impact Your Emotions 14: A Tough Situation Just Got Tougher: How Parenting a Child With Health Issues or Disabilities Can Impact Your Mood Part 4: What's Next? 15: From Ambivalent to Terrified and Everything In Between: Creating an Empowering Postpartum Plan for the Next Pregnancy 16: So What Now? Treatment Options