Although having a baby can be an exciting and life-changing milestone, for some new parents, the experience can bring on intense sadness, anxiety, loneliness, and other emotions. These may be symptoms ...

New baby, new emotions. Over 80% of new mothers experience the “baby blues” shortly after childbirth due to changing hormones ...

Five weeks after giving birth, a woman arrived at The Motherhood Center in New York City, a clinic specializing in perinatal mental health. The woman seemed composed, but Catherine Birndorf, MD, ...

The weeks and months following childbirth bring profound physical, emotional, and psychological changes that can overwhelm even the most prepared new parents. While some degree of mood fluctuation, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. When Bri Ramos was pregnant with her second child, she was already worried about the symptoms she ...

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers maternal mental health and ...

Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill hope a nationwide study combining life experiences and at-home blood samples will one day help ...

Up to 20 percent of women develop a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD), such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder or (rarely) psychosis, either during pregnancy or in the year ...

Mental Health Practitioner, Addiction Specialist and Counselling Psychologist Esther Kyewaa Opoku has urged women and their ...

About 1 in 5 women will experience depression and anxiety during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth. If untreated, a ...

Postpartum depression in mothers is a widely recognized condition that affects 1 in 7 women. But less known is that 1 in 10 ...