Maternal Mental Health
What is Postpartum Depression?
Being mentally healthy during childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems.
What is children's mental health?
Is a term used to describe mild mood changes and feelings of worry, unhappiness, and exhaustion that many women sometimes experience in the first 2 weeks after having a baby.
What are "baby blues"?
What are symptoms of children mental health challenges?
Is a mood disorder that can affect women during pregnancy and after childbirth. Mothers with this mood disorder experience feelings of extreme sadness, anxiety, and fatigue that may make it difficult for them to carry out daily tasks, including caring for themselves or others.
What is Perinatal Depression?
Your friend recently gave birth to their first child. For the past 2 weeks you notice that they are having difficulties showering every day, are only eating once a day, are feeling overwhelmed and crying nearly every day. What would you do to help support your friend?
Family members can encourage the mother to talk with a health care provider, offer emotional support, and assist with daily tasks such as caring for the baby or the home.
- Life stress (for example, demands at work or experiences of past trauma)
- Physical and emotional demands of childbearing and caring for a new baby
- Changes in hormones that occur during and after pregnancy
What are Causes of Perinatal and Postpartum Depression?
This person or people may be the first to recognize symptoms of perinatal depression in a new mother.
What are spouses, partners, family members, and friends?
Is a severe mental illness that occurs after childbirth. Women can have delusions (thoughts or beliefs that are not true), hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or smelling things that are not there), mania (a high, elated mood that often seems out of touch with reality), paranoia, and confusion. Women may be at risk for harming themselves or their child and should receive help as soon as possible. Recovery is possible with professional help.
What is Postpartum Psychosis?
What is self-care practices?