08/25/2026
I’ve been following the Lindsay Clancy trial, and more than anything, it keeps bringing me back to the same thought:
We have to take care of mothers.
This isn’t a post about deciding guilt, innocence, or a diagnosis from afar. Those are questions for the professionals and the court.
It’s about what this conversation is exposing.
We celebrate pregnancy. We shower the baby. We check on the newborn. And far too often, the mother is expected to quietly disappear into the role of caregiver while recovering physically, hormonally and emotionally from one of the biggest transitions of her life.
My hands-on work with pregnant and postpartum women is not—and will never be—a replacement for mental-health care.
But it has made me fiercely passionate about creating a culture where receiving care after birth is normal.
Where someone asks, How are you, really?
Where needing help isn’t interpreted as failing at motherhood.
Where postpartum support is planned with the same intention as the nursery.
Where we mother the mother, too.
Because she matters just as much 🫶🏼
