Maternal depression 'most common when child is four'
Depression is more common in first-time mothers when the child is four years old than at any time during the 12 months after giving birth, according to a new study.
Depression is more common in first-time mothers when the child is four years old than at any time during the 12 months after giving birth, according to a new study.
A new study of maternal health has found that depression is more common when a child is four after a first birth than at any time during the first 12 months of a baby's life. The study evaluated 1,507 women at three, six, 12, 18 months and four years after giving birth.
Researchers were alarmed to find that women with only one child at four years after birth showed significantly higher levels of depression than women with one or two children.
Contributing factors reported were:
But at four years after giving birth, 40% of women reporting depressive symptoms had not previously reported this.
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