{"id":38613,"date":"2025-11-13T19:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:38:25","slug":"a-great-advocate-n-y-state-senator-backs-staten-island-mothers-push-for-better-postpardum-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38613\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A great advocate&#8221;: N.Y. state senator backs Staten Island mother&#8217;s push for better postpardum care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 As Staten Islander Alexsis Gilles continues to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2025\/06\/an-isolating-experience-staten-island-mother-advocates-for-mental-health-care-after-traumatic-birth.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2025\/06\/an-isolating-experience-staten-island-mother-advocates-for-mental-health-care-after-traumatic-birth.html\">advocate for mental health care and support for mothers who have experienced a traumatic childbirth,<\/a>\u00a0she has been able to connect with State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, who sees the need for meeting women\u2019s needs in postpartum care.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also been working with Scarcella-Spanton,\u00a0who has attended a support group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlexis has been a great advocate,\u2019&#8217; the senator said, noting she\u2019s working with Gilles and considering whether legislation or a pilot program might be best to address the need for better follow-up care for postpartum women.<\/p>\n<p>A more comprehensive plan will be in place heading into the January session, Scarcella-Spanton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the privilege to meet with her support group, and so many women simply feel they just need someone to see if they are OK,\u2019&#8217; said the senator, who represents the North Shore and parts of Brooklyn. \u201dPostpartum mental health check-ins are vital, and we should be meeting women where they are at, and more frequently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2025\/11\/a-great-advocate-ny-state-senator-backs-staten-island-mothers-push-for-better-postpartum-care.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 As Staten Islander Alexsis Gilles continues to\u00a0advocate for mental health care and support for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-38613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}