Women Suffer Postpartum Depression

Women Suffer Postpartum Depression.
Having a longer motherhood leave reduces a woman's imperil of postpartum depression, new research shows. The findings suggest that the extreme 12 weeks of maternity leave given to American mothers under federal law may be inadequate, according to the University of Maryland researchers. "In the United States, most working women are back to knead soon after giving birth, with the bulk not taking more than three months of leave," study leader Dr Rada Dagher said in a university scandal release ohio. "But our study showed that women who return to work sooner than six months after childbirth have an increased endanger of postpartum depressive symptoms," added Dagher, an assistant professor of salubrity services administration at the School of Public Health.

In the year after giving birth, about 13 percent of mothers participation postpartum depression, which can cause serious symptoms similar to clinical depression. This inquiry included more than 800 women in Minnesota who were followed for a year after they gave birth busty siddha herbs and. About 7 percent of the mothers went back to engender within six weeks, 46 percent by 12 weeks, and 87 percent by six months.