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Birthing Center Clinical Supervisor Leigh Copsey, RN, and staff Marla Casella, RN, IBCLC, Linda Taylor, RN, and Jessica Whitaker, LNA take care of a newborn in Memorial Hospital’s Family Birthing Center. (COURTESY PHOTO)

More than three million births are recorded in the United States each year. Each birth often includes excited — and sometimes tired — new parents eager to move on from months of pregnancy to raising their new child.

With all the activity surrounding pregnancy, birth and bringing a new baby home, many new moms experience the “baby blues.” For some, the ‘baby blues’ progress to postpartum depression.

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