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Pregnancy & Baby Index: Pregnancy - Postpartum: Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy - Postpartum/Postpartum Depression
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Eating fish during pregnancy may help mood
Many pregnant women avoid eating fish altogether because of concerns of mercury, but a new study shows that this can contribute to depression for many expecting moms. Find out which fish options are best for pregnant women to help improve their mood.
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
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
Baby blues -- or is it really 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 Hamps
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 stu
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.
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