Care for the whole mother
Postpartum care should make room for physical recovery, mental health, and the realities of daily life.
Research & Approach
Supporting Mothers Between Appointments
An evidence-informed brief on postpartum mental health and complementary digital support.
A mother’s emotional needs continue between appointments. This brief brings together public-health guidance and published research to explore how postpartum care can include mental health—and where resources like My Postpartum Pal could offer additional everyday support.
Free PDF · 7 pages · October 2026
Support between appointments
Research suggests that some digital interventions can support postpartum mental health. Their role and benefits depend on the intervention.
A thoughtful role for MPP
MPP is designed to offer everyday emotional support through AI-assisted conversation and brief resets, with choices that stay in the mother’s hands.
Evidence & funding brief
The cost of free. Why it matters.
Generative AI, everyday emotional support, and the economics of access.
Postpartum support should be free or low cost, and keeping it that way takes a sustainable funding model. This discussion paper looks at what support costs, what responsive AI might add alongside human care, and what a bounded, independently evaluated pilot could look like.
Free PDF · 7 pages · October 2026
Availability has a real cost
Keeping one support role staffed around the clock takes 8,760 hours a year. Free access is a commitment with an operating cost.
AI can lower the cost of everyday support
A text-only example runs about $0.03 per conversation in model usage. That is a scenario, not MPP’s actual bill, and it does not prove safety or effectiveness.
Funding is not a single open pool
Nonprofit spending and restricted government awards have different purposes and eligibility, so sustaining access takes a deliberate funding plan.
This brief is an analysis, not a clinical guideline or an audited MPP cost model. Figures are illustrative, and no clinical outcomes or cost savings have been established for MPP.
Evidence informs our approach. MPP’s own impact remains to be evaluated.
This brief discusses research on other digital interventions; it does not establish MPP’s clinical effectiveness. MPP is intended to complement professional care and is not a diagnostic, treatment, or emergency service.
By Kenya Jackson-Saulters, founder of My Postpartum Pal.
Drawing on guidance from ACOG and WHO, CDC data, published research, and public funding sources. Full references and disclosures are included in each brief.
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