The city has created a so-called “stress-free zone” in a low-income Brooklyn neighborhood where new parents can get everything from free massages to mental-health screenings to combat maternal mortality.

Brownsville’s “Neighborhood Stress-Free Zone” pilot — located at the Department of Health’s Neighborhood Health Action Center Family Wellness Suite — opened in September to combat a deeply disturbing increase in the rate, which has been fueled by overdoses and suicides, officials said.

“We in New York City have historically not been very good at recognizing a post-partum birthing person … who’s experiencing depression,” said Dr. Zahirah McNatt, acting assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health, to The Post.

“They might even go to a hospital and be sent home [d

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