Idea for app seeks to help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorder - innovationIOWA

Idea for app seeks to help women with perinatal mood and anxiety disorder - innovationIOWA

The held team: Danny Fast, Clair Williams-Vavra and Subbu Balla. Photo courtesy of Clair Williams-Vavra When Clair Williams-Vavra went to Techstars Startup Weekend, she had a seven-year-old idea to help moms going through hard times after giving birth.Once known as postpartum depression, it’s now referred to as perinatal mood and anxiety disorder, or as Williams-Vavra, 37, refers to it: being in “a hole.”She experienced it with both of her child…

Photo: archive The cycle of talks “We are many who feel the same way” will continue this Friday at 4 pm in the Municipal Auditorium “Arturo Illia”, with a day destined for Perinatal Mental Health. The day is organized by the program “Women Building the Future” and the Secretariat of Health, Disability and Human Rights of the Municipality. Punctually, topics such as expected maternitys versus real maternitys, changes during pregnancy, childbirth …