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Pregnancy & Baby Index: Pregnancy - Postpartum: Postpartum Depression
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Baby blues - or postpartum psychosis?
 - While "baby blues" -- the most common form of illness associated with new motherhood -- is relatively mild and fleeting, postpartum psychosis produces symptoms that are much more extreme: mental confusion, loss of memory, incoherence, and bizarre hallucinations. Find out what this frightening experience was like for one new mom.
1 in 7 women are depressed before, during or after pregnancy - A new Kaiser Permanente study, the first integrated survey of maternal depression, shows that more than one in seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before becoming pregnant, during pregnancy, or in the nine months after childbirth.
Baby blues -- or is it really depression? - What are "the baby blues"? Are they an early warning sign of postpartum depression?
Breastfeeding and good fats help new moms fight depression - Breastfeeding and the good fats in Omega-3 fatty acids help new moms fight depression, according to a new article published in the most recent issue of the International Breastfeeding Journal by a University of New Hampshire researcher.
Breastfeeding baby when mom's on Prozac - Most breastfed infants nurse without showing meaningful effects from their mothers taking 20 to 40 mg of the anti-depressant fluoxetine (Prozac) daily, according to a study by Yale researchers.
Cesarean recovery: What nobody tells you - It's a subject that pregnancy books tend to gloss over and prenatal instructors choose to ignore: exactly how your body will feel after a cesarean birth.
Common questions about postpartum depression - What is postpartum depression, and how can you identify the symptoms? Find out some information here about this disorder than affects approximately 15 percent of women.
Depressed moms less likely to interact with their newborns - When mothers experience symptoms of depression after the birth of their children they are less likely to breastfeed, play with, read to or perform other interactive parenting tasks with their newborns, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Columbia University
Effects of postpartum depression in both mothers and fathers - Approximately 14 percent of mothers and 10 percent of fathers suffer from moderate or severe postpartum depression resulting in undesirable parenting practices and limited parent-infant interaction.
Loving every (other) minute of it - Part 2 - Imagine you have just moved to a foreign country. You have the worst case of jet lag ever. The guidebook you brought, which seemed so comprehensive before you left home, does not tell you everything you need to know. You do not yet speak the language, and everything is confusing...
More than one downside to anxiety and depression - A study has found that the children of mothers who were anxious 32 weeks into their pregnancy are at twice the risk of having behavioral problems when they are seven years old. These problems include increased anxiety and depression and hyperactivity/attention deficit disorder.
New mothers should be screened regularly for postpartum depression - Physicians should screen mothers for postpartum depression regularly for at least a year following childbirth to better identify women who develop symptoms throughout the year and those whose depression persists, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers say.
Postpartum blues and depression: A guide for dads - About 70 percent of new mothers experience periods of mild sadness, weepiness, mood swings, sleep deprivation, loss of appetite, inability to make decisions, anger or anxiety after the baby is born.
Postpartum contract: Get the help you need to fight postpartum depression - Postpartum depression is very real, and is also very treatable. Many women suffer unnecessarily, because their depression is undiagnosed or they are embarrassed or uncertain that they have PPD
Postpartum depression - You've just had your baby and you are full of all sorts of emotions -- and none of them feel like you expected. What could be wrong?
Stopping antidepressants during pregnancy may lead to symptom recurrence - Study is first to investigate whether discontinuing treatment can lead to relapse during pregnancy.
The postpartum baby blues - As many as 80% of new mothers experience a case of the baby blues that lasts for weeks after the birth of their baby. This isn't something new mothers can control -- there's no place for blame. The most wonderful and committed mothers, even experienced mothers of more than one child, can get the baby blues
Tired? Maybe it means something more - A simple questionnaire on fatigue, administered two weeks after birth, may serve to identify women who at increased risk of developing moderate to severe postpartum depression, according to researchers.
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