- By: Janet O’Hare
- Posted in: Mental Health, The Childbearing Year
It’s time to put a stake in the heart of the notion that we should expect a majority of women to suffer from the “Baby Blues”. It is normal for women to be labile and tired postpartum. It is not necessary for them to be miserable. Major depression with a postpartum onset and postpartum psychosis are found throughout history and around the world. The Baby Blues are endemic in a time and a place where women routinely receive grossly inadequate …