• More than 30% of births in the US are considered traumatic - either physically or mentally, often both. 

• One in 4 families will experience miscarriage one or more times. 

• One in 5 birthing people will experience a perinatal mood disorder during pregnancy in the postpartum period or both (acute situational anxiety, depression, OCD, rage, and more). This number jumps to 1 in 3 when considering Black American and Indigenous birthing people. One in 10 fathers and partners will also be inflicted. 

• All of these numbers are considered underreported and pre-Covid, which has exacerbated most of these issues.

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There is ample evidence correlating the lifelong impact of these challenges, when not supported, on the birthing person's emotional well-being, optimal brain development in the infant, and the health of family relationships.  

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Today, despite these growing statistics, traditional obstetrics and institutional healthcare remain largely untrained in perinatal mental health and ill-equipped to manage it as an issue or through staffing. Societally, shame and inadequacy are our first reactions to perinatal struggle, rather than feeling deserving of a village of support and concern during one of life's most overwhelming, challenging, and expensive seasons.

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The well-being of the primary caregiver is a vitally significant factor in healthy infant social/emotional and learning development with lifelong implications. Families, especially birthing people, are not meant to give life and raise another human alone, but rather in a village (we are quite literally biologically hard-wired to). 

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Mind Body Baby works to be that village for anyone who needs it.