A new mother goes through significant changes in her lifestyle and the postpartum journey for many is full of ups and downs. While baby blues is a short-term condition that lasts for a week or month postpartum depression is full-blown mental health condition where feelings of hopelessness and emptiness are experienced. While baby blues is a short term condition that …
Postnatal depression can affect both parents at the same time, research suggests. Doctors estimate that as many as 20 per cent of new mothers suffer from postnatal depression but the psychological effect on men was less known. The study, by University College London, looked at 30,000 new parents and found 3.2 per cent had postnatal depression simultaneously. Overall, 11 per …
A mother has revealed how she came close to taking her own life while suffering from postpartum psychosis, after being dismissed by doctors who said she just had 'baby blues'. From then on, Jessica says she became ‘obsessed’ with what was going on inside her head, developed severe anxiety and struggled to eat. After her diagnosis Jessica was sent to …
Taiwan’s largest zoo has celebrated a flurry of births in recent months – including pandas and pangolins – in a welcome boost during a visitor slump due to the coronavirus. Human footfall to Taipei Zoo may have dropped this year but officials have been kept on their toes with an animal baby boom that has just kept coming. “We are …
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