Optimal Motherhood and Other Lies Facebook Told Us by Jessica Clements

Author:Jessica Clements
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press

The fact that topics related to PPD were not being discussed was evident in social media mothering group discussions of PPD as well as in interviewees’ responses to the question “Are there related topics you wished were being discussed that are not being discussed by moms and/or doctors?”

“My peds office is great with talking about everything. My OB was good, too. She didn’t tiptoe around anything. I like that. My sister is the opposite, so I hope that doctors are good with not tiptoeing around sensitive topics.”

“I wish postpartum was more aggressively discussed.”

“In general, I wish that people were more comfortable asking their pediatrician or ob-gyn questions. I think people feel like they have to figure it out themselves (I was that way). ‘What are ways that I can manage this?’ I also think they should ask the new mom serious questions in private without their mom/husband being there.”

There is direct reference to the American bootstrapping ethos in the respondents’ answers to this question as well as a clear delineation of PPD as a “sensitive” subject that deserves “aggressive” attention on the part of medical practitioners. “Tiptoeing” is a particularly apt description given the attention we want to put on not only what is discussed in social media mothering groups but how it is discussed. Silence can be particularly damaging for various reasons but talking around sensitive subjects may be equally if not more damaging.

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