Phone Lines
Family Paths - 24-hour local hotline for parents 1-510-893-5444
Postpartum Depression Stress (Warmline) 1-888-773-7090 9am-9pm
Postpartum Support International (Spanish) 1-800-944-4773
Websites
Maternal Outreach Mood Services – El Camino Hospital (Day Treatment Program)
Postpartum Support International
Books
Beyond the Blues: A Guide to Treating and Understanding Prenatal and Postpartum Depression by Shoshana Bennett & Pec Indman
Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child by Faulkner Fox
Down Came the Rain – My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields
Dropping the Baby and other Scary Thoughts by Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel
Great Sex for Moms by Valerie Raskin
Inconsolable: How I threw out my Mental Health with the Diapers by Marrit Ingman
It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
The Mask of Motherhood by Susan Maushart
Mothering the New Mother: Women’s Feelings and Needs after Childbirth by Sally Placksin
Mothering without a Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within by Kathryn Black
Mother Nurture by Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson and Ricki Pollycove,
The Myth of the Bad Mother: The Emotional Realities of Mothering by Jane Swigart
Postpartum Depression for Dummies by Shoshana Bennett
The Postpartum Husband by Karen Kleiman
The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook by Pamela Wiegartz and Kevin Gyoerkoe
Sleepless Days: One Woman’s Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Susan Kushner Resnick
Sorrow’s Web: Hope, Help, and Understanding for Depressed Mothers and Their Children by Anne Sheffield
This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin
What Was I Thinking? Having Another Baby After Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleiman
Women’s Moods by Deborah Sichell & Jeanne Driscoll