Postpartum Depression

Women may develop a major depressive episode within a month of the birth of the infant. Although over half of all women develop short-term postpartum "blues", symptoms become severe in 10 to 15% of new mothers and it is these women who have true postpartum depression.

Please see:

Section IV: "Depression in Special Populations"
CANMAT – Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Pharmacological Treatment of Depression
(1st Edition Rev., 1999)
P. 43

Interview: Postpartum Depression -- Text

Postpartum Depression

Gail Erlick Robinson, MD, FRCPC
Director, Women's Mental Health Program,
The Toronto Hospital Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology,
University of Toronto

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