Sentences with phrase «affect maternal mood»

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A history of short breastfeeding or not breastfeeding is associated with postpartum depression.1 This condition affects approximately 7 — 15 % of women in the first 3 months after birth and may result in maternal anxiety, depressed mood, poor concentration, and hyperawareness of pain.

These psychologic impairments may create difficulties with mother - child bonding, 7,8 and they may also affect breastfeeding.9 — 14 The underlying neuroendocrine mechanism linking breastfeeding difficulties with maternal mood has not been studied.

Maternal or perinatal depression encompasses a range of mood disorders that can affect a woman during pregnancy, around the time of birth and through the child's first year.

Maternal depression and anxiety, often referred to as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, are the most common complication of childbirth, affecting at least one in six new mothers in Los Angeles.

Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in paternal psychological status because it is strictly related to maternal one and to child development.9 These few studies evidence that also fathers can be affected by this type of mood alterations and that the transition to parenthood represents a stressor and an anxiety experience for 10 % of fathers, 10 revaluating the paternal role in family functioning after childbirth.9 - 11

In a sample of affected sibling pairs, both maternal history of mood disorder and current ADHD was a predictor of impairment in family functioning [29].