Emily Little is a perinatal health researcher with a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and a graduate specialization in anthropogeny (the study of human origins) from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny. She can also be reached on LinkedIn and Instagram @nurturely.
Dr. Little uses approaches from psychology, anthropology, and public health to understand and prevent the root causes of disparities in perinatal and pediatric health. As the founder of Nurturely, she disseminates research to improve clinical practice through equity-centered training programs for health care providers.
She is also co-author of the papers “Randomized controlled trial to prevent postpartum depressive symptomatology: An infant carrier intervention” and “An Infant Carrier Intervention and Breastfeeding Duration: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”
Emily Little is a perinatal health researcher with a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and a graduate specialization in anthropogeny (the study of human origins) from the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny. She can also be reached on LinkedIn and Instagram @nurturely.
Dr. Little uses approaches from psychology, anthropology, and public health to understand and prevent the root causes of disparities in perinatal and pediatric health. As the founder of Nurturely, she disseminates research to improve clinical practice through equity-centered training programs for health care providers.
She is also co-author of the papers "Randomized controlled trial to prevent postpartum depressive symptomatology: An infant carrier intervention" and "An Infant Carrier Intervention and Breastfeeding Duration: A Randomized Controlled Trial."
Did you know? August 22nd marks World Plant Milk Day. Get ready for a creamy, non-dairy cheers! Once just reserved for soy, the list of alternate milk options now includes everything from macadamia to hemp to flax to rice milk.
But has anyone stopped to wonder why our milk craze, first ignited with the glass bottle deliveries of 1878 and now perpetuated with the bougiest …
You hear it in conversations with friends when returning to work. Maybe in clinic visits with your patients. Definitely among celebrities and on mainstream media. And maybe you’ve even said it yourself. ”
“My sister suffered with postpartum.”
“I was just diagnosed with postpartum.”
“My wife had to seek help after we realized she was experiencing severe postpartum.”
Yet the word postpartum simply means: the time after childbirth. In the medical community, “postpartum” most often …
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