Cesarean delivery rates continue to increase, and surgery is associated with chronic pain, often co-existing with depression. Also, acute pain in the days after surgery is a strong predictor of chronic pain. Here we tested if mode of delivery or acute pain played a role in persistent pain and depression after childbirth. In this multicenter, prospective, longitudinal cohort study, 1288 women ho...

OBJECTIVE To describe weekly admission rates for affective and non-affective psychosis, major depression and other psychiatric disorders in the early and late postpartum periods. To assess the impact of socioeconomic status, age and parity on admission rates. METHODS Scottish maternity records were linked to psychiatric hospital admissions. 3290 pregnancy-related psychiatric admissions were a...

Perinatal period may pose a great challenge for the clinical management and treatment of psychiatric disorders in women. In fact, several mental illnesses can arise during pregnancy and/or following childbirth. Suicide has been considered a relatively rare event during the perinatal period. However, in some mental disorders (i.e., postpartum depression, bipolar disorder, postpartum psychosis, e...

Acute blood loss in the postpartum period is the primary cause of maternal death worldwide [1] and postpartum hemorrhage complicates 4-6% of births [2]. In most cases of postpartum hemorrhage, bleeding from the genital tract is the source of the blood loss. Uterine atony accounts for 80% of postpartum hemorrhage [2] and genital tract injury, uterine inversion or rupture, genital tract or retrop...

INTRODUCTION There is limited knowledge regarding the symptom profile of genito-pelvic pain in pregnancy and postpartum, and potential psychosocial predictors of this pain. Prior studies have reported a positive association between prepregnancy pain and postpartum genito-pelvic pain. Greater fear avoidance has been associated with increased genital pain intensity in women, unrelated to childbir...

PURPOSE Many new mothers return to work soon after childbirth. This study examines personal and work-related factors associated with the postpartum health of employed women 11 weeks after childbirth. METHODS Using a prospective cohort design, we recruited 817 Minnesota mothers into the study while they were hospitalized for childbirth in 2001. Telephone interviews were conducted at 5 and 11 w...

background and aim: postpartum period is often associated with decreased marital satisfaction in couples. the present study aimed to investigate factors contributing to marital satisfaction in primiparous women during postpartum period. methods: this correlational study was performed on 104 primiparous women who referred to health care centers, mashhad, iran in 2013, 8 weeks after delivery, to ...

Childbirth pain is one of the most painful experiences of a mother's life. In this review we investigate the association between childbirth pain and postpartum depression. It is well documented that postpartum depression is an increasing concern which affects not only the mother but can impact the newborn's development. Multiple factors seem to contribute to the likelihood of this depression de...

The anxiety mothers experience during pregnancy is well known and may have negative consequences for the emotional, psychological, social development of newborns. Anxiety must therefore be reduced using different strategies. To determine published non-pharmacological interventions to reduce pregnancy, childbirth postpartum. A systematic peer-review experimental quasi-experimental studies was co...