Protecting Your Mental Health (Baby Blues and Postpartum Depression)

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.5 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As soon as most expecting mothers hear the words postpartum depression, they tune out and skip over this topic. If you have never experienced depression, it is the last thing you think you need to know about, especially at a time in your life when you expect to be the happiest. Baby blues and postpartum depression are a complication of birth. The baby blues are estimated to occur in about 50% or more of women. Some studies show an even higher prevalence at nearly 80%. One in seven mothers will experience postpartum depression, and 40% of those mothers will have onset after birth. Over the last few decades, research shows that the number of new moms experiencing postpartum depression is increasing. This episode/article covers the symptoms of the baby blues and postpartum depression, how to get help, and how to protect your mental health postpartum.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode we're talking
0:17.4	about protecting your mental health and talking about the baby blues and postpartum depression.
0:23.6	Now, before you skip right over this episode,
0:27.1	I know that as soon as most expecting moms hear
0:29.7	the words postpartum depression,
0:32.0	they're gonna tune out and skip right over this topic.
0:36.1	If you have never experienced depression, this is the last thing you think you need to know
0:41.0	about, especially at a time in your life when you expect to be the
0:44.7	happiest.
0:46.5	Baby Blues and postpartum depression are a complication of birth.
0:51.1	And before you think that this could affect you, the baby blues are estimated to occur in about 50% or more of new mothers.
0:59.0	Some studies even show a higher prevalence at nearly 80%. One in seven moms will experience
1:07.2	postpartum depression and 40% of those will have an onset after birth. So that means that they didn't have
1:14.9	depression before that. Over the last few decades there's research showing that the
1:20.2	number of new moms who get postpartum depression is increasing.
1:25.1	So in this episode we're going to talk about the symptoms of the baby blues and postpartum,
1:30.6	how to get help, and how to protect your mental health postpartum. This is a very
1:36.2	important episode. If you want to blow through this episode at two times speed
1:40.9	you can do that. You can also skim through the article for this
1:44.8	episode on the website if you'd rather just skim through and read it I urge you
1:49.7	to not skip over this topic You can find the complete article all of the resources for
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