post partum depression
... This depression is brief and not severe. ... He also states that most women are surprised that they are at risk of depression after birth. ... This is known as postpartum depression coons defines postpartum depression as “a mild to moderately severe depression that begins within three months following childbirth. ... 86) Postpartum Depression can last anywhere from two months to about one year. Some women have a higher risk to having postpartum depression than others. Although it is not possible to characterize an individual women will have postpartum depression it is possible to recognize risk factors in pregnant women. One way to detect postpartum depression is to study a woman’s emotions during pregnancy. Women who are happiest in the later months of pregnancy but suffered from mood swings and anxiety earlier in the pregnancy suffered from postpartum depression. The North Middlesex Hospital Survey showed that it was those women who were happiest, elated, and euphoric during later months of pregnancy who were at risk- PPD 2 for sixty four percent of such women developed postpartum depression, compared With the twenty four percent who did not. The mothers who developed Postpartum depression were also those likely to have been most anxious at their first interview at the antenatal clinic; they were the ones with mood Swings, anxious in early pregnancy, elated in later pregnancy. ... 123) There was other important finding in the study at the North Middlesex Hospital that sided with a genetic rather than psychological explanation for postpartum depression.