What supports are Peer Support Groups available in Peel? Peel Postpartum Family Adjustment After Birth Have a baby? Support Line Peer Support Groups are held weekly in several 905-459-8441 • 289-298-5468 (Caledon) Ontario Early Years Centres Pregnant? • Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. across the region. • Caring, confidential support from How are you mothers who have been there. Call your closest centre for • Services available in English, Hindi, more information: feeling? Urdu, Punjabi, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and Cantonese. Brampton Parent-Child Resource Centres PMD in Peel Website Brampton Centre OEYC 180 Sandalwood Pkwy. E., Unit 8C, Brampton pmdinpeel.ca 905-495-3430 Caledon Parent-Child Centre Visit our website to learn more about: Dufferin-Peel-Wellington Grey OEYC • Postpartum Mood Disorders. 150 Queen St. S., Bolton • Community resources and services. 905-857-0090 • Articles and links to research. Dixie-Bloor Neighbourhood Centre • Links to multilingual fact sheets and Mississauga East OEYC 3160 Tomken Rd., Mississauga frequently asked questions. 905-276-6392 Malton Neighbourhood Services Women’s Reproductive Bramalea-Gore-Malton-Springdale OEYC 3450 Morning Star Dr., Mississauga Mental Health Program 905-677-6270 Trillium Health Partners – Credit Valley Site Mississauga Parent-Child Resource Centres trilliumhealthpartners.ca Mississauga South OEYC 1801 Lakeshore Rd. W., Mississauga • Support and treatment for women 905-822-1114 Scan this QR code with experiencing mental health issues during Mississauga Parent-Child Resource Centres your smart phone pregnancy or after the birth of a baby. Mississauga West OEYC • Therapy, consultation, support groups, 6677 Meadowvale Town Centre Cir., Mississauga educational workshops, and counselling. 905-567-4156 FHE-0184 13/10 Symptoms of Postpartum How can you help What does not help Mood Disorder include: a new mother? a new mother? Feeling Poor worthless or concentration • Telling her to snap out of it guilty • Practical support – be involved in baby care • Saying “you should be happy to have • Give Mom a break so she can sleep this baby” Extreme Feeling angry • Criticizing or judging her fatigue or • Do housework or irritable exhaustion • Do laundry • Withdrawing your support or rejecting her • Schedule some family time together Difficulty Feeling sad or • Arrange for someone to watch the sleeping helpless baby so you can spend time as a couple • Get informed about her condition Remember ... Feeling and available supports Changes in anxious or Avoid appetite • Affirm her skills as a mother panicky unsympathetic people PMD is not anyone’s fault Fathers and/or 1 out of 5 Partners can mothers will There is no also experience experience shame in asking for help depressive depression symptoms With help, during or women will pregnancy or anxiety recover during pregnancy or after the birth Be patient, of the baby. after the birth or recovery takes adoption of a child. time.