Do you Screen all New Mothers for Postpartum Depression?
More »The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was developed in 1987 for screening postpartum women in outpatient, home visiting settings, or at the 6-8 week postpartum examination. It has been utilized among numerous populations, including US women and Spanish-speaking women in other countries.
More »Data increasingly point to the benefits of breastfeeding, both for the infant and for the mother. Now, a new study points to the relationship between postpartum depression and negative early breastfeeding experiences, just as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sheds light on the lack of...
More »All pregnant women should be screened for bipolar disorder, according to a recent article by Verinder Sharma, MB, BS, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and colleagues. This is because bipolar depression may be misdiagnosed as...
More »For some couples, the transition to parenthood is not filled with this rich mixture of great perplexity and great joy.
More »Democratic control of Congress may result in the dislodging of a long-stuck bill authorizing an unspecified amount of additional federal funding for research into postpartum depression. But in hearings in a House subcommittee recently, Republicans voiced an intention to add postabortion depression...
More »NEW ORLEANS -- The example of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub five years ago, illustrates the difficulty of identifying postpartum psychosis, said a psychiatrist who testified in her defense.
More »NEW ORLEANS -- The example of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub five years ago, illustrates the difficulty of identifying postpartum psychosis, said a psychiatrist who testified in her defense.
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