Adopting an attitude of increased empathy and empowerment should apply above all to all professionals involved in the care, from doctors to nurses, from breast-feeding support and paediatricians afterbirth.

There is nothing like parenting that requires us – ideally – to be able to cope with feeling the entire range of human emotions. From good to bad. From heavenly to devilish. From bliss to helplessness, from love to hate. Why?

Lucia shares with us her writings exclusively developed for ‘The MON’ blog in which, chapter by chapter, she helps us to understand our own self, our emotions, why we experience or are affected of post-natal depression dissipating any possible misconceptions about therapy and its role and aims.