Pregnancy and the postpartum period can bring major emotional, hormonal, physical, and practical changes. This check-in looks at mood, anxiety, connection, sleep, and safety after having a baby without assuming every difficult feeling means a disorder.
This tool is designed for self-reflection and support navigation. It is not a diagnosis. Results should be interpreted in context, especially when symptoms are severe, persistent, or affecting daily life.
About the evidence: Project Semicolon custom postpartum mental-health check-in. It does not reproduce the copyrighted Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS).
Project Semicolon reviews assessment wording, scoring logic, safety routing, and source status separately from the directory experience. Custom check-ins are clearly distinguished from validated instruments.
We store the completed assessment type, result band, score when applicable, limited secondary signals, and basic engagement events for aggregate metrics. Raw question responses are not stored.
This assessment is a screening and support-navigation tool, not a diagnosis or substitute for professional medical care.
No. Short-lived mood changes are common after birth, while postpartum depression is more persistent and disruptive.
Yes. Anxiety, panic, OCD symptoms, and trauma responses can occur during the perinatal period with or without depression.
Not necessarily. Unwanted intrusive thoughts can occur in anxiety and OCD. Intent, loss of control, psychosis, or inability to maintain safety require urgent evaluation.
Yes. Partners can experience depression, anxiety, sleep disruption, trauma, and adjustment difficulties after a baby arrives.
