Latha K. (2016). Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Postnatal Mothers Who Under Went Emergency Lower Segmental Caesarean Section, Government Hospital, Tambaram. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 2016; 8(3): 172-175.
Gross, C., L. (2016). Maternal age and postpartum depression during the transition to parenthood. Kent State University. Pdf.
Using Survey from mothers and analysis of data from National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiments, the authors analyzed the relationship between age of first birth and postpartum depression. The results showed that there was no significant association between the age of first birth and postpartum stress.
CDC (2016). Depression Among Women. The CDC. Retrieved on January 29, 2017, from https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/depression/
According to the author of all the above articles, postpartum stress disorder manifests in the following ways. Prolonged crying, anger outbursts, withdrawals from loved ones, numbness and disconnection with the baby, worrying too much that the mother could hurt the baby and doubt on one’s ability to take care of the baby. However, some have emphasized on one particular issue or just a few of them. This information could be useful for researchers while studying postpartum depression among mothers.
Risk factors associated with postpartum depression include stress, poor social support of the mother, difficulty in getting pregnant, having lost a baby previously, and teen motherhood, preterm delivery, having a child with a disability, pregnancy complications, and hospitalization of the baby. The information above is critical in providing researchers with critical approaches to the study of postpartum stress. The scientists can find common causes and find interventions from the evidence. However, like Gross, C., L. (2016) found, there was no relationship between age of first birth and postpartum stress. In a nutshell, information on the postnatal stress helps diagnose, treat, and also prevent its occurrence among mothers.
References
CDC (2016). Depression Among Women. The CDC. Retrieved on January 29, 2017, from https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/depression/
Gross, C., L. (2016). Maternal age and postpartum depression during the transition to parenthood. Kent State University. Pdf.
Latha K. (2016). Assessment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Postnatal Mothers Who Under Went Emergency Lower Segmental Caesarean Section, Government Hospital, Tambaram. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 2016; 8(3): 172-175.
