Your Experience Matters.
Together, we can contribute to meaningful research aimed at enhancing the mental and emotional well-being of mothers and families in the postpartum season.
It Can Make A Difference.
Active Research Opportunities
Focus Groups
Mental Load of Parenting: Insights and Strategies for Management
The purpose of our focus groups are for you to help us develop technology-based options to alleviate the mental load of parenthood, improve mental health, and provide new support strategies for parents.
Why participate in the focus group?
Share with us your ideas on what technology needs to support your mental load
Help us meet your technology needs as a new parent
Online
60 minutes to discuss your digital needs as a parent
All information is kept confidential
Privacy and information protected
Participants must be 18 years or older
Live in the USA
Identify as a mom, dad, birthing or non-birthing parent.
$500 giveaway for anyone that chooses to opt in
Parent Survey
#1 New Parent Stressor: Mental Load
The mental load of parenting can be overwhelming yet we know so little about. What you experience matters, please share it with us. The purpose of this study is to determine key components of the mental load of parenthood during pregnancy and the early postpartum years and determine how to develop technology-based options to alleviate stress, improve mental health, and provide new support strategies for parents.
Online
Anonymous
Privacy and information protected
Participants must be 18 years or older
Live in the USA
Identify as a mom, dad, birthing or non-birthing parent.
$500 giveaway for anyone that chooses to opt in
Dads matter, too.
We realize the postpartum experience has a unique impact on fathers, and it deserves to be heard as well. In order to create holistic, multi generational changes, we cannot ignore one of the most obvious roles in the postpartum period. When father’s participate, the whole family heals.
Make An Impact.
Support mothers by enhancing postpartum mental and emotional health insights. Your input will help guide the future of postpartum care and shape initiatives focused on helping moms and families thrive during this crucial time.
What studies say about mothers and the postpartum experience.
Mental health professionals are recognizing the high number of new mothers facing perinatal psychiatric challenges, which include anxiety, PTSD, and OCD, often starting during pregnancy. Research suggests 1 in 5 mothers might meet criteria for a mental health diagnosis, with many more struggling, even if they don't meet formal diagnostic thresholds. These conditions heavily affect cognitive functioning, contributing to "Mom Brain." Dr. Rohr notes an increase in mothers suspecting they have new-onset ADHD, though true ADHD symptoms must be present from childhood.* This emphasizes how overwhelming and distressing the postpartum experience can be for new mothers. (*Houston Methodist Leading Medicine)