2023-09-18 22:15:00
DECRYPTION – The months following a birth are a period of great psychological vulnerability, well beyond the classic “baby blues”.
The postpartum period is among the most intense in a mother’s life. But it is also a moment of great vulnerability, which can be accompanied by real psychological suffering. For the first time in France, researchers studied the mental health of mothers two months following giving birth. Their work, published in the Weekly epidemiological bulletinshow that on average 16.7% of them are affected by postpartum depression (PPD), that more than a quarter suffer from anxiety, and that one in twenty women would face ideas suicidal in the first months postpartum.
The team led by Nolwenn Regnault, head of the Perinatal, Early Childhood and Mental Health Unit at Public Health France, worked on the data collected during the last National Perinatal Study (ENP) in 2021. This large-scale study is carried out every five to six years on a representative sample of women who gave birth in France during the same…
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