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Booby Traps Series: How a History of Sexual Abuse Affects Breastfeeding
If Penny Simkin, author of When Survivors Give Birth, is right, between 25% and 40% of all women may be survivors of early sexual abuse. And if that’s the case, many women of child-bearing age may face an often invisible … Continue reading
Posted in Booby Traps, Main Content
Tagged Booby Traps, breastfeeding, breastfeeding after sexual abuse, depression, kathleen kendall-tackett, penny simkin, sexual assault, sleep disturbance, when survivors give birth
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Last revised on 08/21/2013
Last revised on 08/21/2013
Science You Can Use: For sexual assault survivors, does breastfeeding affect depression and sleep?
An area of breastfeeding that gets little attention - but impacts an astoundingly large number of women - is the experience of sexual abuse survivors. When I spoke with Penny Simkin, author of When Survivors Give Birth, for a podcast … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Empower, Inspire, Main Content, Prepare, Science News
Tagged anxiety, breastfeeding, depression, dr. kathleen kendall-tackett, penny simkin, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sleep
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Last revised on 02/18/2013
Last revised on 02/18/2013