Content Warning: Homicide, harm of children, mental illness, suicide.

Lindsay Clancy, an L&D Nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of killing her three children. She was receiving intensive outpatient treatment for postpartum depression, and the tragedy happened at her home after her husband left for 25 minutes.

Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders are common, and lethal. We need to talk about them, and do everything we can so what happened to Lindsay Clancy and her children won't happen again.

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Read the essay on medium: medium.com/@katenovot/we-need-…chosis-910c9ded20b1

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POSTPARTUM MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

For more info: visit Postpartum Support International - https://www.postpartum.net - where there are great resources for survivors of PPP and their loved ones.

National Maternal Mental Health Hotline:  1–833–943–5746 (1–833–9-HELP4MOMS)

National Suicide Hotline: Dial 988

Kate Novotny is an L&D nurse, birth worker, author, parent, and student midwife. She has hosted the Taproot Doula Project multi-media social platform since 2013. 

Kate’s life’s work is to help birthing people claim their full agency and sovereignty in birth. She strives to create safety, where birthing people can return to their bodies, and fully experience birth as a rite of passage.