PPD can occur anytime within
the first year after childbirth.
Another Study done by The Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology showed that suicide was the single largest cause of maternal death during
the first year after childbirth.
Postpartum depression generally affects 20 per cent of women — and sometimes men — in
the first year after childbirth.
We know that between 12 % and 20 % of women experience anxiety and / or depression during pregnancy and
the first year after childbirth.
«But we did not identify any change in average vitamin D status during
the first year after childbirth or any relationship between lactation period and vitamin D levels.»
Postpartum thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid that initially occurs in
the first year after childbirth, miscarriage, or induced abortion.
Symptoms can appear any time during pregnancy and in
the first year after childbirth.