Sentences with phrase «postpartum after the birth of my first child»

I don't know how many times I've thought back to the day I first met my lactation consultant, Megan, at the base Starbucks we lived close to when I was only three weeks postpartum after the birth of my first child.

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But sometimes it is more than baby blues; Postpartum depression or anxiety is a form of depression and anxiety that develop within the first six months after child birth and affects between 15 % and 20 % of women.

After the birth of her first child, 3 - year - old Harper, she found that the extreme pressure to breastfeed fed into her postpartum depression and anxiety.

Davis suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, and understands that reaction on a personal level.

Postpartum depression can develop after the birth of any child, not just the first.

Although Darling's first birth experience is a tragedy most mothers will never experience, a difficult postpartum recovery, like hers after the birth of her second child, isn't all the uncommon.

I was afraid of drugs «Looking back, I probably should have gone on antidepressants the first time,» says Amy Sky, 47, of Toronto, who had severe postpartum depression after giving birth to each of her two children.

After I gave birth to my first child, I was shocked to experience symptoms of menopause during my postpartum stage: hot flashes, night sweats, brain fog, vaginal dryness, and CRS (Can't Remember Stuff).

During the first year of fatherhood, the rates of depressed fathers were quite high: 25 % of American men exhibited signs of postpartum depression during the first three to six months after child birth and 14 % continued exhibiting signs after one year.

In general, as many as 12 % of all pregnant or postpartum women experience depression in a given year, and for low - income women, the prevalence is doubled.1 The rate of major and minor depression varies during pregnancy from 8.5 % to 11.0 %, and in the first year after birth of a child, the rate ranges from 6.5 % to 12.9 %; the rate of major depression during pregnancy ranges from 3.1 % to 4.9 %, and in the first year after birth of a child, the rate ranges from 1.0 % to 6.8 %.