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• a  occurring immediately after birth

• She was hospitalized both times and was diagnosed with postpartum depression and psychosis.
• Again, though, those better results do not mean that the risk of infant mortality is lowered with home birth, but that the postpartum health of the mother and baby may be improved.
• Would it help or hurt to screen all mothers for postpartum depression?.

• postnatal

• perinatal

News & Articles

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• National survey finds moms face many physical and emotional challenges after birth; many have concerns about injury ...
  NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--What is life like after baby? 1,072 mothers reveal info on postpartum issues including: elective c-section, division of labor between mom and partner, depression, cost, birth center, breastfeeding.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire
• Skin-to-skin contact after birth could prevent postpartum depression
  Dalia Abrams, a childbirth educator with Birth Well, discusses the benefits of skin-to-skin contact after birth and its role in reducing postpartum depression.
  June 10, 2013 - Alabama's 13
• Filipino woman kills husband, child in rage
  HINOBAAN, Philippines, June 9 (UPI) -- Police say a woman in the Philippines was undergoing postpartum psychosis when she killed her husband and young son and stabbed her other three children.
  June 9, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Harry Reid in International Herald Tribune
  They feel bad about siding with big oil over advancing America's priorities,Reid said. "They voted against American mothers who suffer postpartum depression."
• Brooke Shields in Contactmusic.com
  Shields tells the New York Times, "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken...
• Elias Zerhouni in National Institutes of Health (press release)
  The researchers showed that giving women misoprostol after birth is a safe, inexpensive means to prevent postpartum hemorrhage from occurring,said NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni. "This advance has the potential to save thousands of...