A new study has found that when fathers are given the flexibility to take time off work in the months after their children are born, it improves the postpartum health and well-being of mothers.
“It’s no surprise that women having more support from their partners during the postpartum period helps to alleviate issues of postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression," explains Erica Chidi Cohen, doula and cofounder of Loom. “In the U.S. there is an understanding that one of the reasons why PPD is the number one complication after childbirth is because there’s not really any community infrastructure to help support women in that very vulnerable time.
And while postpartum care has a long way to go in the U.S., there is at least some solace in knowing that Sweden is setting a more equity-minded example of paternity leave for the rest of the world—and has sobering data to back it up, too.
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