Title:maternal Depression and Malnutrition in Children in South West Uganda: a Case Control Study

The abstract needs to be revised in terms of grammatical errors like in the fifth line: “Cases were children who were children malnutrition...” where it must be added the word “with” or improve the writing to avoid the repetition of the word “children”. In response to this comment which was made according to the grammatical errors in the old manuscript on page 2 second sentence of the manuscript. The changes are reflected on page 2 of the revised manuscript the methods section of the abstract. Minor compulsory revision #3 Manuscript in general Is the writing acceptable? I think it is needed a lot of improvement. We edited the whole manuscript and used an independent person whose native language is English and with long term experience in writing who helped us with further editing to make our writing acceptable and worthy of publication. Through the process of editing and proof reading grammatical errors were eliminated. Minor compulsory revision #4 References 19 and 18 are the same References were revised, a reference manager was used to avoid duplication of references. References 21-23, the first author is the same but the studies are different. This is on page 14 of the revised manuscript. Minor compulsory revision #5 Eleventh line of results the word “with” is missing in the phrase “also associated malnutrition” This was edited and changes are reflected on page 8 of the revised manuscript, the last sentence of the results section. Minor compulsory revision #5 In line 27 of Discussion “jobs which are not well paying despite working several hours a day” should use “paid” instead of “paying”. We revised the discussion section and the line that was talking about poorly paid jobs has been removed and instead concentrated more on how education empowers women to make right choices for their children and to seek care at the right time. This is reflected in line 27 and 28 of the discussion section in the new manuscript on page 9.