The initial symptoms of postpartum depression. What is the probability of postpartum depression?

Postpartum depression is a psychological disease that pregnant women suffer from due to stress after giving birth. Pregnant women with the disease will have very unstable moods, always want to cry, and cannot control their temper. So what are the initial symptoms of postpartum depression? What is the probability of postpartum depression?

The symptoms of postpartum depression in patients are mainly mood changes, low self-esteem, lack of confidence in life and physical symptoms. Patients feel persistently depressed, listless, sleepy, prone to crying, depressed, and feel unhappy. Sometimes they are prone to temper tantrums, get angry over trivial matters, and even attack. Patients have low self-esteem and are overly concerned about their children's health. They believe that they are unable to take good care of their children. They are self-destructive, self-blaming, and have an uncoordinated and disharmonious relationship with their family members, which often leads to a poor family atmosphere. They also lack confidence in life and are unable to take good care of their babies. Therefore, they feel that life is meaningless and have suicidal thoughts or thoughts or behaviors of killing their babies. Physical symptoms are more common, including decreased appetite, decreased libido, sleep disorders, and other related symptoms.

The probability of postpartum depression is between 10% and 30%. If it is not the second or multiple births, the probability of depression will increase. The symptoms of depression in most women are not very obvious or pass very quickly. It is just that there is an unstable mood in character, crying for no reason or being in a bad mood. About 10% of mothers will have very strong depression. In severe cases, there will be emotional reactions of depression and mental irritability. If this symptom lasts for more than two weeks after delivery, you should pay attention to whether you have suffered from postpartum depression. In addition, there are psychological and economic reasons for women's postpartum depression. Having children is the responsibility of every woman, but the focus of life will change after having a baby. Female friends must make choices between work and entertainment. Therefore, after giving birth, you need more care from your family, a warm and good postpartum care environment, and a reasonable diet to help mothers get out of postpartum discomfort as soon as possible.

Postpartum depression, also known as postpartum blues, refers to depression that occurs after giving birth, often during the confinement period, mainly due to physiological and psychological factors. The main symptoms of postpartum depression include tension, doubt, guilt, fear, etc. Some women with more severe symptoms have extreme thoughts or behaviors such as despair, running away from home, harming their children or committing suicide.

The time at which postpartum depression occurs can be different for each mother:

1. Prenatal depression continues. Some mothers suffer from depression before giving birth, and the depression has not been relieved after giving birth.

2. Postpartum depression. Some mothers do not have depression before giving birth, but after giving birth, due to the imbalance of estrogen levels in the body, they experience depression symptoms such as anxiety and irritability.

3. Cyclic depression. Some women begin to experience postpartum depression a few weeks or even months after giving birth. They really like taking care of their babies at first, but then they gradually become more and more depressed until they develop serious symptoms.

It is worth noting that postpartum depression is not completely equivalent to postpartum blues. Postpartum blues start two or three days after giving birth. Mothers feel sad and want to cry. They worry about their babies and themselves, and they feel nervous and tired. Postpartum blues will disappear in a short time, but postpartum depression needs to be treated. Mothers with severe depression should seek help from psychologists or use medication.

In order to prevent the occurrence of postpartum depression in women, it is necessary to strengthen health care during pregnancy, communicate with pregnant women more often, so that pregnant women do not have too much psychological and mental pressure, maintain a good pregnancy environment, and avoid being stimulated by adverse factors. In this way, pregnant women will not have psychological burdens and can also reduce the incidence of postpartum depression. When the mother gives birth, try to provide a good delivery environment to reduce the negative emotions of pregnant women, do not let pregnant women have production pressure, and try to reduce the occurrence of some adverse complications and psychological abnormal symptoms. A good pregnancy environment and production environment are conducive to the smooth delivery of pregnant women and can also reduce the incidence of postpartum depression. After delivery, it is also necessary to pay attention to psychological communication with the mother, avoid strong mental stimulation of the mother, and do not let her have great pressure because the gender of the child is not ideal; encourage the mother to contact the newborn, feed and care for the baby personally, so that the exchange of maternal love is conducive to cultivating the relationship between mother and child, learn more about baby care common sense, and will not have resistance due to not knowing how to take care of the child. The mother is in a good mood and can take care of the child with ease, so there will be no psychological pressure and no postpartum depression. If you are irritable, anxious, depressed, or overly concerned about your baby's health, you will fall into a state of mental tension or emotional agitation, which will aggravate the symptoms of postpartum depression.