PPD - Looking for a Good Dr. in Westchester

C., I'm so sorry you feel so alone. You shouldn't. It is VERY common to suffer from PPD. How horrible that your doctor made you feel like that. I suffered from PPD after the birth of my twins, it was the nurse practitioner at the OB office that actually gave me some medication and recommended some doctors.

I do not actually know any doctors in Westchester (though I did grow up in Briarcliff, I now live in Hoboken,NJ) but hopefully some other moms will chime in on specific recommendations.

Hang in there, and you are doing the right thing looking for help.

Warm Regards,
S.

hi C.;

can you travel to manhattan to see a wonderful therapist? i have been seeing Ruth Saks for anxiety and depression symptoms and phases for several years and she is a loving, warm, human psychotherapist. she is also a mom and a grandma and really comes to it from that perspective. her phone number is ###-###-####. she is in the east 80s, has a sliding scale, and you can bring your baby to sessions with you. she does not administer medications unless it's really, desperately necessary, and if that's needed she sends you to a nurse practitioner. she herself is a talk therapist, and she's really wonderful. my work with her is the reason i was able to get married and handle my two wonderful children.

i would also urge you to find a new OB. this woman that you see doesn't sound like someone who's really in it for the right reasons.

good luck and lots of love,
J.

Oh my dear, I had severe PPD. I know exactly where you are coming from and I'm going to recommend that you go in to the city immediately and make an appointment with Dr. Katherine Birndorf at the Payne Whitney Women's program, ###-###-####. She is a PPD specialist as it that whole group. A word of caution - if you are nursing you may get advice from psychiatrists to pump and dump or not use certain medications, and I did pump and dump and it made my depression worse from the exhaustion of it. I then found Ann Smith from PPSI, and she got me to take what I needed (within the guidelines of what is acceptable of course course) and everything was fine. Of course you may choose to bottle feed and that's fine but what is most important is that you get treated NOW. You want your baby to have a mother, bottom line. E-mail me.