After my wife gave birth to the baby, she thought I didn’t care enough about her. Is this postpartum depression?

This is not an isolated phenomenon. At 7 a.m. on April 14, 2018, a 30-year-old mother in Chongqing went missing. Family members said she suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth to her second child. After sending my eldest son to school at the bus stop in the morning, he never returned home. A few days later, Toutiao News received feedback that the mother had passed away. Postpartum depression is gradually understood and valued by people. It is not an independent disease, but a psychological and spiritual change that occurs in women during this special period after giving birth. In my country, the prevalence of postpartum depression reaches an average of 14.7%, and postpartum depression is related to many physical, psychological, and social factors.

My daughter is now one year and eight months old, half a year after giving birth. Because she was tired and helpless, for a while I found that I began to have a tendency to be depressed. According to my own experience, the main symptoms of postpartum depression are There are the following types. Persistent depression, listlessness all day long, and sometimes inexplicable tears when holding the baby. Mothers with postpartum depression will switch between two extremes of mood. Sometimes they will be amused by a joke from their family, but they may fall into sadness the next second. Emotional, often crying, irritable, and feeling guilty when seeing children crying.

Loss of appetite is prone to occur. Because of the physical reasons of postpartum depression, the patient often does less exercise, coupled with anxiety, so it is easy to suffer from loss of appetite. Without exercise and enjoyment, it is easy to suffer from loss of appetite.

If the family takes care of mothers with postpartum depression after taking medicine on time as recommended by doctors, they should pay attention to allowing them to get more rest. Taking care of the baby is a very hard task, especially for mothers with depression. Families must share more of the household chores and taking care of the baby. If necessary, postpartum depression is currently a state experienced by many mothers. This is partly due to changes in body hormones, but also largely due to psychological and emotional reasons. It manifests as melancholy, silent tears, grievance, and emotional loss of control, etc.