PPD News: Researchers out of Wales report that they have identified the location of genes that can make women vulnerable to postpartum mental disorders. They accomplished this by examining the DNA of families with a member who suffered from postpartum psychosis. They hope that their work will help in the development of more effective postpartum mental health treatments.

Proud Mary: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) shares some thoughts on early motherhood with the magazine You: “It’s nice to be focused on someone other than yourself. I kind of killed myself looking after Will in the beginning because I didn’t want to leave him; I wanted to be the one there with him whenever I wasn’t working. So I never went out, never went to the gym – I didn’t want him to be picked up in the middle of the night by someone who was paid to pick him up.” Ms. Parker’s son, Will, is three years old. Dad is actor Billy Crudup, but the two split up when Ms. Parker was pregnant.