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New Moms in Africa Fight Postpartum Depression

Masimba Biriwasha, RH Reality Check, Africa & Asia on May 9, 2008 - 8:20am
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African women giving birth are often affected by low incomes and and high stress levels, increasing the likelihood of onset of postpartum depression.

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Surviving Motherhood

Pamela Pizarro, RH Reality Check, North America on November 9, 2007 - 8:58am
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After giving birth, many women experience a roller coaster of emotions. But what happens when that roller coaster won't let you off and you can't shake the baby blues? Postpartum depression is a reality for fifty to eighty percent of all new mothers in Canada.


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The Non-Existent Syndrome

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check on November 6, 2007 - 8:03am
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Women may be sad or depressed after an abortion, but that doesn't suggest a "post-abortion syndrome," which is based on the idea that the sadness would be absent but for the abortion, and that a woman's mental health would be fine if she'd chosen to have the baby.


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Speaking Up About Postpartum Depression

Amie Newman, RH Reality Check on November 6, 2007 - 8:01am
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What new mothers don't know can hurt them. Postpartum depression can have a devastating effect but these women prove there can be a way out.


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Pregnancy, Depression and "Please Don't Use My Name"

Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow on November 6, 2007 - 8:00am
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Not one of the three friends expected her life to be touched by depression, postpartum or otherwise, yet it was depression that brought them together.


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My Voice Didn't Soothe Him, My Touch Didn't Comfort

Angela Pandolfo Roy on November 6, 2007 - 8:00am
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When my older son was born in October 2000, we could not have welcomed a baby into a more mature, loving situation, but between his colicky cries and my changing hormones, I was ragged, terrified, and humiliated.


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