Postpartum; Post Depression or Postnatal Depression, however you may refer to this illness, the facts remain the same.
Postpartum affects up to 15% of mothers. Recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum.
Approximately 25% of women with previous postpartum mental disease have a recurrence after their next pregnancy
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Being a Part of Postpartum Depression Support for New Mothers
As a willing individual to take the consideration of being a postpartum depression support to your loved one, you must know how the said new mother should be able to take good care of herself to oppose the effects of postpartum …
Postpartum depression (PPD) affects up to 15% of mothers. Recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for PPD. The negative short-term and long-term effects on child development are well-established. …
Post Partum Psychological disorders
… therapy and group therapy have had the most significant effects. Support groups nationwide. Postpartum Psychosis. This severe condition is most likely to affect women with bipolar disorder or a history of postpartum psychosis. …
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My own experience ioc it might help someone else
I had had depression before, I knew what it was – a black pit I couldn’t climb out of no matter what I did. Even a beautiful sunset did no more than raise an eyebrow. I knew what to do when depressed – straight to my counsellor and if it was really bad up my AD dose. And in time it always worked.
But my PND was different. My baby came following Infertility and 3 miscarriages, she was very much longed for and treasured. I never felt a blackness, I didn’t feel depressed… But I became anxious, really anxious, panicking that she would die if I wasn’t with her all the time. I started crying easily if she was at all distressed, I would lie on the floor next to her cot whilst she napped, I was scared witless. And I also had to be out and about with her, keeping busy, doing things. Overly busy or the panic would get worse.
People started to say I might have pnd but I knew I didn’t, no black pit, no wanting to hide away, just me living my child. In fact this was the crux fir me, if you have pnd then you don’t bond with your child, you want to be away from your baby. That wasn’t me.
And then one day I broke down in the baby clinic, she wasn’t gaining as much weight as she should and j was in blind panic. They tried to take her off me so I could be comforted but I just held her tighter and she was happy so that helped a bit. Thank god for the health visitor who tentatively, considerately, quietly and caringly suggested I had pnd, and I could explain why I didn’t but also how I felt. She told me that pnd is often panic related and she helped me get help.
At the start it was just ADs, I couldn’t go to counselling because I couldn’t leave her! But intime I managed to feel possibly able to leave her with someone trusted whilst I went to therapy. And in time I accepted that I had pnd – that was the major hurdle – and I talked about my fears and that helped a bit. And I cried, for my lost babies and my fears, and I realised that it was ok to feel so strongly towards my child but also allow her some time away from me. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t easy and it took a year to be able to say I felt me again but I recovered. Perhaps this will help someone else, or perhaps not, but it’s my story
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Hi Emma and thank you for taking the time to read this article.
Let me also thank you for sharing with us all your personal experience of PND,
I am sure this will go along way in helping to ‘normalize’ the feelings for those who are or have suffered PND or even depression.
I visited your site and saw the pics of you and your daughter, you must be so proud. Good luck with your counseling training and your quest to be a licensed lay minister.
Take care.
Thank you very much.
Regards
Linda