Postpartum psychosis needs to be understood as a serious medical condition rather than another form of the baby blues.
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts has put postpartum psychosis in the spotlight, raising difficult questions about maternal mental health and what happens when a serious psychiatric illness goes untreated.
Clancy, a former labour and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children in January 2023.
Her defence argues that she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions, while prosecutors have disputed that explanation.
As the jury remains deadlocked after six days of deliberations, the case has prompted renewed discussion about postpartum mental health.
