Articles under Postpartum Depression

Your mental well-being during pregnancy does affect delivery, recovery, and your newborn. Many mothers also find themselves unprepared for the demands of a newborn, even if she already has children. Pre-delivery planning and realistic expectations help new moms cope with the joys and challenges of parenthood. (more...)

Embracing a healthy lifestyle that involves herbal and nutritional supplements can be a viable way to treat depression and mood disorders. There are three life stages that women pass through – premenstrual, postpartum and menopause and their related shifts in hormonal balances may explain why there is such an increase in the risk of depression for women. (more...)

Child birth can have many facets that can add to the underlying causes of postpartum depression: hormonal imbalance, stress, pain and just a plain old general uncertainty about things. To neglect the natural causes of postpartum depression that might be experienced in a woman after going through pregnancy and then childbirth is a gross oversight on the part of health practitioners. (more...)

Exercising is a proven remedy that you can use which certainly beats taking antidepressants which in the long run are only going to drag you down further. Taking an active role in curing one’s affliction, instead of taking antidepressants will also have a positive effect on the individual’s recovery. (more...)

We have all heard a lot in the media recently about the occurrence of post-partum depression (PPD) in new mothers. There is no ‘test’ to detect PPD or postpartum depression, only a serious of questions that a doctor or psychiatrist can ask to determine the likely causes of a person’s suffering. (more...)