Postpartum depression, you really know?

Postpartum depression mainly dominated by depression, emotional low, lonely, pessimistic sentiment is low, slow, fatigue, guilt, self-blame from the offense, such as anxiety and irritability can occur guilt, doubt their own risk There are various diseases, and even felt bad over all internal organs, the most severe cases, suicide attempts, that live useless, too painful, may have no language, does not move, eat and so on.Autonomic dysfunction may be associated with symptoms such as poor appetite, palpitations, sweating, tinnitus and dizziness.Also often wake up early or sleep difficulties.Emotional obstacle may have reduced weight night the morning light fluctuations.

Easily lead to the factors of postpartum depression

The following types of risk factors, prone to lead to postpartum depression:

☆ marriage

☆ during pregnancy depression and anxiety

☆ lack of welfare and security

☆ pressure during pregnancy or negative life events, such as death of family members, relatives far away, move to new places, have experienced postpartum depression or mood disorder.

☆ traumatic childbirth experiences

☆ discharged earlier

☆ history of premenstrual syndrome

☆ hormones: pregnancy, female hormones estrogen and progesterone increase 10 times.After delivery, hormone levels rapidly decreased rapidly within 72 hours to reach previous levels.Some studies show that hormone levels decreased rapidly in the postpartum period and symptoms related to depression.

☆ pressure: For the new mother, the children brought great joy and excitement.No new mother can fully take into account the heavy work and take care of the baby.Period of time after birth, often filled with excitement, but then may be disappointed, and then feel incompetent as a mother is to complete the challenge.

☆ past mood disorders: previous history of depression may increase women's risk of postpartum depression.Studies have shown that 1/3 women with a history of depression in the postpartum period would re suffered.

Postpartum depression influence on children

Maternal postpartum depression can cause connection barriers.Maternal and child connection is between mother and child emotional bond, it depends on a number of factors, including maternal and child between the physical contact, infant behavior and mother's emotional reactivity.This disorder is often a child's adverse effects.Studies have shown that poor maternal and child connection may refuse to take care of the baby when my mother, so that infants damage, and prevent the growth of the baby's normal development.It is reported that ADHD children with a baby that is related to poor maternal and child connection.

Mothers suffering from postpartum depression do not want to hold the baby or can not effectively feed the baby and see if the baby warm or not; not pay attention to the baby's response to the baby's crying or difficulty feeding mothers can not arouse attention; the mother's touch is not normal , the baby sometimes becomes difficult to manage; mothers and babies not get along, arms straight with a baby in the mother is often not witnessed the baby, ignoring the baby's communication signals, the baby's smile or a chuckle as ventilation without the social interaction that is representation; disgust or fear of contact with the child the child, and even some wishful thinking, if that baby is the new Messiah (delusions), illness or death (disease, delusions), the child's shape, size, color changes (body image change), or children into beasts or evil (zoanthropy) and so on.

The adverse effects of early infant will this affect the children born during the first 3 months in the behavioral difficulties, the baby is more intense, less satisfied, easy fatigue, and poor motor development.

Of the late infant (12 to 19 months) of research shows that mothers with postpartum depression and infant cognitive development related to the baby's personality.Mother, the severity of postpartum depression and infant mental and motor development of adverse proportional.

Early childhood (4-5 years) of the first year in the post-natal depression, the mother of her child's ability and cognitive index were significantly lower than children of healthy women.

Postpartum depression based on the adverse effects of mothers and children, this disease should be started once the diagnosis was established therapy.This not only prevents the mother sicker or even to the development of postpartum psychosis, but also make the baby feel her love as soon as possible and warm, healthy and happy growth.

What are the methods to prevent postpartum depression?

Knowledge about depression, know what it is not mere mention of talks with Yu.Depressive symptoms are common, even most of the depression can be regarded as a normal emotional response.There is not a depression, but depression, only the duration of the severely affected all aspects of life long before it reaches the degree of depression.People's emotions are as the sea rises and falls like the moon also wanes.Does not require a slight sign of trouble on the panic mood, eager to adjust.Always understand the depression gradually ease over time.

To improve the living conditions of women before and after childbirth to reduce or avoid negative life events, such as women not in the urgent requirements of the production soon after sex, etc., is conducive to maintaining mental health of postpartum women.Harmonious marital relationship and family support for women postpartum emotional stability of a very important role, more caring, husband, family members, the burden properly take care of the baby.

Postpartum depression self-regulation

If women can know about psychology and psychotherapy techniques can learn to their own use, adjust and improve their mood.

☆ shift the focus:

If indeed face severe postpartum unpleasant life events, and even difficult to solve intractable problems, do not let the energy is always stuck in the adverse event.More they want something unpleasant will become a bad mood, the mood, the worse the more likely a dead end, will become increasingly depressed mood, feeling caught in a vicious circle.It should be appropriate to shift his attention, like the heroine of Gone with the Wind Haosi Jia said when facing a difficult situation think about tomorrow, is a transfer method, the attention to a number of unpleasant things, concerned about their preferences, not only the transfer of thinking, You can also personally involved in whatever enjoyable activities.

☆ seek help:

Women with postpartum depression will have a sense of helplessness inner, psychological experts, this sense of helplessness may be the shadow of young neglected to reproduce.This is actually a signal of concern to other people want, so take the initiative to seek and accept other people's attention is a very effective self-protection.

☆ relaxation charging method:

Appropriate adjustments change the content of life, not always concerned about the child rather ignoring him, the child temporarily to the care of other people so that they are placed on a short holiday, even if it is two hours, half a day, but also to relax and spirit of the charging effect.To avoid the psychological, emotional overdrafts.