I'm trying to think of how we can have healthy babies with unhealthy mothers. I'm not really seeing how that can be. I think we need mentally healthy mothers to have healthy babies.
This hasn't really come up today, but I think it's worth nothing that if you look at the data on unpaid domestic labour in Canada and who is doing this unpaid labour, it is still largely women. As women, we are doing much more of the child care typically, compared with men.
Therefore, there's this additional burden, which can also impact mental health. Having that weight of responsibility is also significant for women's mental health, so I think we have to be paying attention to that.