Am I Experiencing Postpartum Depression? In the days immediately following childbirth, lasting a week or so, 70 to 80 percent of women experience intermittent sadness, anxiety, anger, or irritability.

New postpartum depression findings could lead to a blood test to identify women at risk and possibly even to a preventive treatment. New postpartum depression research from the University of Virginia ...

Evaluation tools such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) help determine if what you’re feeling is a sad mood or postpartum depression. It’s natural to experience mood shifts as a part ...

Overlapping conditions can cause hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, anger and detachment—sometimes long after childbirth.

It’s a well-known phenomenon that many women suffer psychologically after giving birth. Although one might assume that ...

Infants born to mothers with depressive symptoms immediately after delivery had a substantially higher risk of dying before ...

Implementing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in the pediatric primary care setting can improve rates of early detection for postpartum depression. Screening new mothers for postpartum ...

New postpartum depression research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine could lead to a blood test to identify women at risk and possibly even to a preventive ...

Infants born to mothers with depressive symptoms immediately after delivery had a substantially higher risk of dying before ...

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