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WTOP
Dangers of childbirth: US sees 'many deaths,' even after baby arrives
WTOP
When Logan was about 3 months old, Wexler reached out to a counselor. “I don't know how much of it is normal postpartum kinds of stuff — I don't think that I have postpartum depression, but I definitely have anxiety, some resentment, maybe a little ...

The Commercial Appeal
Weathersbee: Did meanness or maternal mood disorder cause this Memphis mom to drown her baby?
The Commercial Appeal
She likely had postpartum psychosis. "Mothers suffering from postpartum depression don't kill their babies," Shelton said. But mothers who experience postpartum psychosis, such as Andrea Yates of Houston, who drowned her five children in a bathtub in ...

Health Matters: Postpartum Depression Common, Treatable
centraljersey.com
Unlike the Baby Blues, symptoms of postpartum depression typically do not resolve on their own and require treatment. Symptoms can occur up to one year after having a baby, but most often start within one to three weeks after childbirth and may include:.

ColorLines magazine
The Paradox of Postpartum Depression
ColorLines magazine
Since the 1950s, there has been a sea change in public understanding that postpartum depression and anxiety, though at times severe, are, by and large, time-limited illnesses when properly diagnosed and treated. A 2017 study by the Royal Australian and ...

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More women may be experiencing depression during pregnancy
KFGO News
While postpartum depression is a well-known problem, in the past decade there's been a paradigm shift to recognizing that symptoms usually appear before the baby is born, said Dr. Priya Gopalan, chief of psychiatry at Magee-Womens Hospital of the ...

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Tampabay.com
Whitman: Jesus Culture's Kim Walker Smith emerges from postpartum depression with new album
Tampabay.com
Kim Walker Smith, the lead singer for world renown worship band Jesus Culture, felt overwhelmed and dazed following the birth of her second son. She cried without knowing why. She mumbled her words. When her mother suggested postpartum depression ...

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The Jewish Standard
Breaking the stigma
The Jewish Standard
Arona Berow is a licensed social worker living in Washington Heights, right across the George Washington Bridge from Bergen County. She's also a young mother who experienced postpartum depression. As part of her mission to destigmatize and normalize ...

Sixth Tone
The Silent Struggle of Having Postpartum Depression in China
Sixth Tone
BEIJING — Sometimes, Cheng Qian looks down at her baby boy and wonders why she brought him into the world at all. Seven months after giving birth, she is still struggling to overcome the symptoms of postpartum depression. “I cry easily and quickly ...

Arizona State University
ASU researchers find heart rate variability in children affects long-term effects of maternal postpartum depression
Arizona State University
Each year, approximately 10–15 percent of postpartum women suffer from postpartum depression, which translates into almost 1 million women. Women from low-income and ethnic minority families have disproportionately high rates of postpartum ...

Psych Congress Network (blog)
Screening for Perinatal Depression Is Not Enough
Psych Congress Network (blog)
Extrapolating from depression treatment rates in the general population and those for women with postpartum depression, they further estimate that only 6.3% of cases of depression diagnosed in the postpartum was adequately treated. I put the word ...

Brides.com
What All Moms-To-Be Should Know About Postpartum Depression
Brides.com
But when, exactly, do these ups and downs in feelings and moods become something to be concerned about? When do you need to consider that you have postpartum depression (PPD) and start to treat it? To better understand PPD, BRIDES spoke with ...

Women's Health
The One Symptom Of Postpartum Depression That's Commonly Overlooked
Women's Health
After analysing 25 years' worth of maternal postnatal depression literature, researchers from the University of British Columbia established that this emotion was a common occurrence among sufferers. But, interestingly, the most popular screening tools ...

Lead singer for Jesus Culture chats about album that came out of postpartum depression
Tampabay.com
Kim Walker Smith, the lead singer for world renown worship band Jesus Culture, felt overwhelmed and dazed following the birth of her second son. She cried without knowing why. She mumbled her words. When her mother suggested postpartum depression ...

Mirror.co.uk
Anger coexists with postnatal depression
Healio
Ou and Wendy A. Hall RN, PhD, also from University of British Columbia, conducted an integrative review to study the expression of maternal anger in the context of postnatal depression. The investigators searched four clinical databases for relevant ...
Tell-tale sign of postnatal depression that's frequently overlooked in new mums - and it could delay recoveryMirror.co.uk
The one important sign of postnatal depression we've all been missingKidspot
Study reveals tell-tale sign of postnatal depression often overlookedDeccan Chronicle

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Changing laws, guidelines expand screening for postpartum depression
Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
Postpartum depression can catch many families off guard and become worrisome not just for the mom experiencing it but for the baby whose mother might have excessive worries about that baby's safety or feel a lack of connection to her baby. That ...

Postpartum depression
The Nation
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression do not only experience hopelessness but are also unable to bond with their child. Unaware of this condition family members especially in-laws criticise the mother instead of giving her emotional support.

MyStatesman.com (blog)
Blogger's memoir addresses postpartum depression, addiction, recovery
MyStatesman.com (blog)
Eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression, she tried to ease the tedium and isolation of stay-at-home life by taking a job as a receptionist. Instead, she found herself drinking more heavily and fighting with Mac, who drank in codependent ...

The Seattle Times
Postpartum depression is real, painful and treatable
The Seattle Times
Being a mom is no joke. Well, that's not entirely true. It's a lot of jokes. Fart jokes, pee jokes, knock-knock jokes. Firmly in the camp of women who would have been fine without kids, the first joke of motherhood was that I ended up pregnant immediately.

MyStatesman.com
Changing laws, guidelines expand screening for postpartum depression
MyStatesman.com
Postpartum depression can catch many families off guard and become worrisome not just for the mom experiencing it but for the baby whose mother might have excessive worries about that baby's safety or feel a lack of connection to her baby. That ...