Post Natal Depression

POST NATAL
DEPRESSION
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
RATIONALE...................................................................................................................................3
Focus on the mother ..............................................................................................................3
What is the evidence saying?.................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Post natal can be refer to as a period of six months after the birth of a child. It is also
known as post-partum period. It is a crucial phase for health and survival of a mother and her
new born baby (Underwood and et.al., 2016). Depression faced by parents after a child take
birth, is known to be post natal depression. It is a most common problem experiencing by more
than 1 in 10 women every year after delivery of a child. The report will focus on providing
necessary information and advice to parents who are seeking for help and going through
postnatal depression.
RATIONALE
Focus on the mother
Post natal depression is basically a complex combination of emotional, physical and
behavioural changes which happen to a mother after giving birth to a baby. It has been diagnosed
that post mother depression is a major depression which lasts for more than four weeks after
delivery of a child. It is known to have some adverse effect on relationship of mother and child
and which eventually lead to impact on overall child development. Mothers experiencing this
kind of depression tends to have worst relationship with their child. Thus, it can be analysed that
factors which impact upon mother and child relationship in earlier days could result in some
serious consequences lifelong on the relationship. During post natal depression period, mother
feel low, anxious and tearful in the first week after delivering a child. It is often consider as baby
blues and which is taken as normal (Chojenta and et.al., 2016). Some mothers are at great risk of
occurrence of post-partum depression because they seems to have one or more risk factors.
Medical complications during birth consist of premature baby and to deliver a baby who is
having some medical disorders are one of such risk factors. Infant usually participate in
interactive routines with their mothers on daily basis. However, postnatal depression limit a
mothers ability to participate in the interaction in mutually and it may also results in effecting
infant's daily activities. Mothers going through this depression are unresponsive, affectively flat
and disengaged from their child daily activity and seems to focus less on their overall growth and
development. Such kind of mother behaviour made the infant unable to regulate their negative
state and seems to develop some self regulatory behaviour. Such depressed mothers always
present as a poor model for regulation of negative state and to solve problems in an effective
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