MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH – MORE STRENGTH TO THE NEW MOM! From trying to conceive to getting pregnant, going through the gestation and also delivery and indeed after delivery, a woman goes through so numerous changes. …
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH – MORE STRENGTH TO THE NEW MOM!
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH – MORE STRENGTH TO THE NEW MOM!
From trying to conceive to getting pregnant, going through the gestation and also delivery and indeed after delivery, a woman goes through so numerous changes. These changes are nearly related to, if not a direct outgrowth of, all the physical and hormonal changes being to her body. Some gain weight, some lose weight, some have mood swings, some develop diabetes indeed. All of these take as important of an emotional risk on the woman as it does physically.
Until lately, the fact that a woman can develop depression during gestation or soon after delivery, wasn’t considered a serious affair – especially in the Indian environment, this was unheard of. Having a baby must always be a happy occasion – and for the utmost part it is. still, there are times when indeed the prospect of being a mama or indeed holding the invigorated in her arms, can not wipe down her gashes from depression. For her to enjoy fatherhood she needs all the understanding, support and care she can get.
Like substance dependence contrivance dependence should be linked at the right moment and effective intervention should be designed to avoid serious physical, cerebral and social consequences.
Maternal Mental Health issues arise in the perinatal period which includes the months of pregnancy and up to one year after delivery. Some of the most common Maternal Mental Health disorders are:
POSTPARTUM BLUES (PPB)
Most common cerebral symptom inpost-partum period. Common with> 70 of maters
. May be associated with fear attacks. Associated with overdue anxiety about health of new- born. Repeated dubieties about feeding, bowel movements, sleep cycle of new- born. Improves after 1 – 2 months doesn’t beget functional impairment. mama with PPB bear good physical, social support, consolation from doctors
and rest.
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION (PPD)
Seen in 10 – 15 of mother inpost-partum period. Associated with symptoms of feeling low, loneliness crying spells, lower sleep and lower appetite, poor commerce, suicidal ideas, fear of harming the child, incapability to enjoy being with the child.
Case with symptom suggestive of postpartum depression should get prompt discussion with psychiatrist as it’s fully reversible in with psychotherapy, comforting, drug and social support system. Delay in treatment dogging may vitiate quality of life, mother child cling, acting upon the suicidal ideas, habitual depression, and failure of wedded connections secondary to depression.
POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS
This is extreme and quite rare. Nevertheless, one must watch out for symptoms which are essentially like general psychotic reactions such as delusions and hallucinations. PPP usually sets in with two weeks of delivery of the baby and quickly escalates. Symptoms include:
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