Last year, we introduced our podcast, So Glad You Asked, which I co-host with Allie Hales, a mom of four who brings her own lived experience to every conversation. The show was built around a simple idea: mothers have real, urgent questions about their mental health during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and they deserve real, evidence-based answers — not just what turns up on a Google search.

Why We’re Launching a Second Website

The Center’s website, womensmentalhealth.org, has long served as a trusted resource, but it was built primarily with clinicians and researchers in mind. Much of what we publish there addresses questions that providers are asking — about diagnosis, treatment guidelines, and the latest research. It isn’t always written with a worried new mother, at 2 a.m., searching for a straight answer, in mind.

That’s where our new website sogladyouasked.org comes in.

Our new site is a home base for the podcast and for the community that’s grown around it. It’s still in its infancy — we’re building it out episode by episode — but our goal is for it to become a companion to womensmentalhealth.org: a place where the same evidence base is translated into the kind of practical, patient-centered information that moms and families are actually looking for.

On the site, you’ll find:

• Every episode of the podcast, with links to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Podcast Index
• Updates on the questions we hear most often from patients and listeners
• Stories grounded in lived experience — not just clinical guidance, but what it actually feels like to go through pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood
• A direct line to ask Dr. Ruta a question (more on that below)

Ask Dr. Ruta a Question

One feature we’re especially glad to offer is a simple way for visitors to submit their own questions. Whether they are weighing the safety of a medication in pregnancy, navigating anxiety after your baby arrives, or trying to figure out how to support a partner who’s struggling, they can send us the question that’s been keeping them up at night.

A few things worth knowing about this feature:

• It is not a substitute for medical care. 
• It is a place to find information you can trust.
• Questions may be answered directly, or may shape future podcast episodes and articles.

What’s Next

Our new website sogladyouasked.org is just getting started, and it will grow the way the podcast has: one honest question, and one honest answer, at a time. We hope it becomes, for patients and families, what womensmentalhealth.org has become for providers — a place visitors can return to again and again, and trust the resources they find.

If you haven’t yet, take a look at the new site, listen to an episode of So Glad You Asked, and if you have a question of your own, we’d genuinely love to hear it.

—Ruta Nonacs, MD PhD