Colic, crying, round - the - clock wakings — is it any wonder that parents experience high rates of depression in the
first year
after the birth of a child?A study of British parents in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found that more than one - third of mothers and about one - fifth of fathers seem to have weathered depression
sometime between becoming parents and their children's 12th
birthday, with the most episodes occurring in the
first year
after birth.