16. Air Force Spouse Patience: Two Off-Base Births, Managing Deployments, PPA/PPD, and Postpartum Support International

In today’s episode we’ll be hearing from Air Force spouse Patience, who shares her two off-base birth stories. One birth took place at a duty station with lots of close friends and neighbors, and the other took place during COVID at a new duty station, and with an unexpected deployment three months postpartum, so she discusses how that impacted her postpartum experience. Patience is Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a specialty in perinatal mental health, and she also works with Postpartum Support International, both with military families specifically and through the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color. Website/blog: www.whoamamas.com IG: whoamama_blogFB: https://www.facebook.com/WHOAMAMABLOGLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patience-riley-ncc-lpc-pmhc-bb948521/ Postpartum Support International: https://www.postpartum.net/Follow along with Military Birth Talk:Instagram: @militarybirthtalkFacebook: Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum CoalitionSubmit your birth story!forms.gle/3TT7FyV1QQV3RZGc8