Postpartum depression has four years after birth

Australian scientists have found that one in three women, She became a mother for the first time, faced with the symptoms of postpartum depression after Four years after the birth. This refutes the popular opinion that the peak This disorder occurs in the first year of motherhood.

Postpartum Depression

It turns out, postpartum depression   more common Maternal four year olds than for women in the first year after birth. K This is the conclusion, researchers from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Victoria. They found that one in three women for the first time became a mother, depressive symptoms occur at least once during the period between pregnancy and the fourth year of a child's life.

Scientists have refuted the widespread opinion that the peak postpartum depression   mother falls on the first year of life. Moreover, in particularly at risk are women who have given birth once. Their the risk of becoming a victim of depression doubles, as many as 23% of mothers with one child faced with depression four years after childbirth. Amongst women with several children, only 11% thereof.

The researchers found that the main cause of these depressions are problems in family relations, domestic violence and low social status of mothers. Meanwhile, the vast majority psychologists and psychiatrists who work with young mothers to focus on to assist it in the first months after birth, so it is believed that it there is a critical period of development of postpartum depression.

In their study, the scientists used the Australian information on the 1507 women who become mothers for the first time who filled questionnaires at 6, 12, 18 months after giving birth, and after four years. (READ MORE)

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