Causes and symptoms of postpartum depression

Postpartum depression can be mild, moderate or severe, can be transient or lasting.

The cause of postpartum depression

Hormonal changes

After birth, reducing dramatically the amount of estrogen and progestrogen contributed to making thyroid hormone changes cause the feeling of fatigue. Besides, the change in blood volume, blood pressure decreases, the metabolism in the body can lead to emotional changes and lead to depression.

Family conflicts

A couple of family conflict is not solved to cause pressure, physiological imbalances against women and this easy guide to postpartum depression.

The problem of the sex of the child is also one of the reasons why women suffer postpartum depression. Due to the pressure of her husband's family about birth son should see his child born has unwanted sex, the woman is psychologically depressed, upset ...

Worry too much

Many cases the mother born child do not have thoughtful preparation, all the worries about child care makes the woman pressured heavily. This situation last long cause the woman suffered depression.

A number of other cases, many moms feel stress, insomnia, nervous about the possibility of baby care. From that feeling of losing interest in life and take control of your life.

Genetic factors

If the family had had someone with depression, the risk of postnatal depression of women is also very high.

Lack of sleep, lack of nutrients

Because after birth have to spend much time child care so many women don't have time to take care of yourself, don't sleep enough, eat enough nutrients ... This is also one of the causes for sexual tension, frustrating page appears.

Get to know early postpartum depression

Body breakdown

Many mothers feel miserable, hopeless falling gradually after childbirth, even weeping all day without any specific reason. Sometimes, they felt were her husband, family, friends left. These feelings are often unfounded. These women may breakdown fell into constant fatigue, lethargy with home work. They are not sad bathing, grooming.

Stress, anxiety

Stress often comes with depression. The mother is under stress often suffer severe depression. Mothers sometimes feel stress and lack of confidence when out of the House. They even can hardly meet the friend, refused to answer the phone or mail. In this case, the mother usually does to your doctor should families need to invite the doctor to the House.

The mothers are not good health often have to worry about health itself. Can they feel headaches, neck pain, back pain, chest, but the visit did not find out the cause. This makes them more stress.

Panic

The mother may feel panic for those situations occur every day and can hardly calm down. Therefore, it is best to help them avoid situations that they suffer stress.

Haunted feeling

Mothers suffering from depression often obsessed, maybe about a person, a situation or a particular activity. Few people can become fearful and believes himself to be the threat to the family members, especially children. These fears are common symptoms of depression that can come with feeling guilty. This usually has no reasons, but if the mother was afraid his influence should report to the family and the doctor.

Losing focus

A mothers depression often hard to focus in reading, watching TV or chatting normally. They will feel that poor memory too, and sometimes no sort is thinking. They can sit there doing nothing, just think they feel very badly.

Sleep disorders

Often people who suffer from depression are very difficult to sleep. They have sports come near, or can't sleep. Few people slept intermittently, or were awakened in the middle of the night, sometimes having nightmares and couldn't sleep.

Many mothers feel more stress in the evening, should lose sleep long. At the moment doctors often prescribe sleeping pills, but sometimes high doses are still not effective. In this case, the mother will feel disappointed. Is important to cure depression will sleep are normal. Best to have people help the mother feeding in the evening.

Sex

Loss of interest in sex can happen for the mother postpartum depression, usually lasts for some time, so the fathers need to sympathize and understand that this is just a symptom of the disease. Sexual excitement will return when the mother off depression. The fathers should be patient and try to comfort his wife recover from postpartum depression.

Helping parents feel comfortable including light touch, cuddling and caressing, will be good for both.=