PATERNAL POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Introduction Postpartum depression (PPD) affects both the father and the mother after childbirth. It is also referred to as postnatal depression. Currently, most of the studies and clinical practice have devoted much time to the maternal postpartum depression thus ignoring the psycho-social problems faced by new fathers. The lack of attention on the paternal postpartum depression (PPD) has significantly contributed to the reasons why paternal postpartum depression is widely unknown phenomenon today (Demontigny, Girard, Lacharite, Dubeau & Devault 2013). Fathers have been significantly affected by the coming of the newborn babies into the world as much as mothers are. It ...
