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.