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As if being pregnant and depressed wasn’t hard enough. Now researchers say your depression could make your life miserable again in say thirteen years.
A new study out of Cardiff and Bristol universities and King’s College London has posited a link between moms who are depressed during their pregnancy and violent teenage offspring. Continue reading »
Post-partum depression affects around 13 percent of all women who have given birth. But often it doesn’t show up until two or three months after birth. That’s well past the final six-week check-up, which means a possibly depressed woman wouldn’t be seen by a doctor until she has already been broadsided by depression.
What would help is if PPD could be predicted. Spanish researchers think they’ve found a way to anticipate nearly 80 percent of all cases — 80 PERCENT! That’s huge.
The model they developed diagnoses a likelihood for PPD even before a mother shows symptoms. Continue reading »
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