Postnatal Depression Is A Clinical Depression That Lasts

Postnatal depression is a clinical depression that lasts for about a month (Sigelman Rider, 2015) and symptoms of postnatal depression include parents being irritable, lethargic, tired, insensitive and generally distant towards their children (Field, 2010; Liu et al., 2016; Ramchandani, Stein, Evans, O’Connor ALSPAC study team, 2005; Wachs, Black Engle, 2009). Prenatal depression can also be a sign that the mother will experience postnatal depression (Parsons, Young, Rochat, Kringelbacht Stein, 2012). Postnatal depression in both mothers and fathers have a significant impact on the development of infants and their interactions with the parents, whether biological or adoptive. Postnatal depression affects children’s adjustment in†¦show more content†¦Malnutrition in infants do not allow the brain to develop accordingly and at a pace within the normal ranger causing the child to be immature for his/her age and have problems behaving accordingly. Another research study by Verbeek et al. (2012), however, contradicts this and has found that postnatal or postpartum depression does not influence behaviour at all but that it only affects children psychologically. Maternal postnatal depression has a long-term impact on children. The mothers’ behaviour and mental state during a child’s infant years is important to the child’s development and behaviour as they grow older (Ramchandani et al., 2005) and the likelihood of a child becoming depressed as he/she grows up automatically increases, (Murray et al., 2011), if the child has a mother who experienced depression in the postnatal period and it increases a child’s risk of being diagnosed with any other psychological disorder. This is according to a study conducted by Verkuijl at al. (2014) in Soweto, South Africa which set out to determine the effects of maternal postnatal depression in children 10 years of age. Postnatal depression has no in between, so mothers are either overprotective and overcompensating for the negative emotions they experience after giving birth or they are cold and distant toward their infants. Postnatal depression involves parents being less sensitiveShow MoreRelatedNo Perinatal Mental Illnesses Have Linked With An Increased Risk Of Suicide Essay920 Words   |  4 PagesUntreated perinatal mental illnesses have also been linked with an increased risk of suicide. According to Mendez-Bustos et. al suicide has been shown to be one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the last two decades and in the perinatal period the rate is not showing any signs of improvement. In 2005 among women aged 15 to 44 years suicide was the fourth cause of death in the US (Mendez-Bustos, Lopez-Castroman, Baca-Garcà ­a, Ceverino, 2013). 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