postpartum depression
New-mother emotional crisis
Postpartum depression is a mood disorder affecting some women after childbirth, characterized by persistent sadness, exhaustion, anxiety, and difficulty bonding with the newborn.
It goes beyond the mild "baby blues" that many mothers experience briefly.
Untreated, it can last months and interfere with a mother's ability to care for herself and her child: She was diagnosed with postpartum depression six weeks after delivery.
- new momRecently delivered woman
- motherhoodState of being a female parent
- postnatalAfter childbirth
- fourth trimesterFirst months after birth
- dysthymiaChronic low-grade melancholy
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- Pregnancy Issuesmiscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, stillbirth
- depressionsadness, hopelessness, anhedonia, low mood, depressive episode
- Mental Disordersschizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD, OCD
- Mood Disordersbipolar disorder, dysthymia, cyclothymia, bipolar II, seasonal affective disorder
- pregnancy worriesmiscarriage, birth defects, complications, preeclampsia, stillbirth
- maternal complicationseclampsia, preeclampsia, uterine atony, endometritis, puerperal fever
postpartum depressionprenatal depression
Depressive illness before birth
postpartum depressionbaby blues
Light-colored eyes, affectionately