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Expert: Men who get involved with pregnancy may inevitably feel like failure

A medical expert claims that men who get involved with their partner’s pregnancy may have their confidence destroyed and injure their potential relationship with the child in the future.
Dr. Jonathan Ives, of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham, is fighting against what he calls the “false, modern rhetoric of equal involvement [...]

Study: Dads also susceptible to postpartum depression

A new study has convincingly showed that dads are also prone to suffering prenatal and postpartum depression.
Depression and motherhood have been linked in the past, but are fathers also susceptible to prenatal or postpartum depression? New research out of Eastern Virginia Medical School seems to indicate “yes.”
“Depression affects both parents and both parents should be [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow Opens Up About Her Postpartum Depression

In a new interview for Vogue, Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about postpartum depression and how her husband Christ Martin helped her recover from it.
In the latest issue of Vogue, Paltrow describes her “awful” experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her second child Moses in 2006.
At my lowest, I was a robot. I just [...]

Otty Sanchez Gets Jury Trial to Determine Competency for Decapitation Trial

A judge ruled Thursday that Otty Sanchez will get a jury trial to determine whether she is mentally competent to stand trial for decapitating her three-week-old baby.
Defense attorney Ed Camara believes his client was afflicted with postpartum psychosis.  Approximately one in 1,000 women with postpartum psychosis suffer dangerous delusions and desires to hurt their child.  [...]

Bryce Dallas Howard Admits That She Suffered From Postpartum Depression

The actress says that she suffered from postpartum depression after having her son back in 2007.
Bryce Dallas Howard is another celebrity that is admitting that she suffered from postpartum depression after having her son Theo back in 2007. The actress says that it nearly tore her marriage apart. She says that she is truly amazed [...]

Mothers of Multiple Births Have An Increased Risk of Baby Blues

A survey shows that mothers of twins and triplets have a greater risk of getting postpartum depression.
A new study has shown that mothers who give birth to multiple babies, have twice the risk of getting the baby blues or postpartum depression. It was shown that mothers of twins or triplets were more exhausted and took [...]

CRH linked to depression after birth

Which women become depressed after birth, (Postpartum depression), has been a largely unanswered question. A paper published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, may provide an answer.
Depression can run in families and a family history is one factor that may contribute to the illness. However, researchers from the University of California, Irvine found that an [...]