Postpartum Depression
Disease information
Postpartum Depression
It is
normal
, you do not become distressed and it happens to him to most of the mothers, mainly when they have its first son. And it is that to have
a
son after the exhausting
pregnancy
, it can be for some difficult to bear and in addition generates in all many tensions.
The important thing is that you express your feelings and restlessness and you do not feel like culprit, to have
a
son is
a
great responsibility and although we want much to it and we have wished it enormously, seeing it there defenseless, hungry, eager to obtain the cares and the
attention
necessary to grow healthy is not easy, mainly because you not yet have recovered totally.
But
if the
depression
is very strong, you do not let request professional aid, so that you can also help your baby.
The
depression
posparto, is an upheaval that appears in certain mothers after the birth of its son and although it is
normal
, affects more to them to the primerizas, unmarried mothers, divorced, widows, who do not have support of their pair or to which have tendency to
depress
themselves easily.
The cause is not known with exactitude,
but
it thinks that it must to changes that produce in neurotransmitters of
system
nervous
(substance which they take to information of
a
neuron to) like result of the abrupt hormonal modifications that take place after the childbirth.
Also it is attributed to factors like the physical exhaustion, the interrupted dream, the
fear
of not becoming
position
of the baby of suitable way or to the loss of the style of previous life.
The alterations of the mood after the childbirth are classified by their intensity, duration and symptoms, in: sadness,
depression
and
psychosis
posparto.
The sadness or melancholy of the maternity is most frequent and lasts just
a
short time, does not require treatment,
but
it is important to receive the support of the
family
. It is characterized by weeping, irritability, hypersensitivity, sadness, anxiety,
insomnia
, changes of humor,
tires
, loss of the
sexual
appetite, absence of feelings towards the baby and others.
The
depression
is an upheaval greater intensity, than it requires treatment because it originates
a
considerable malaise in the
mother
and her
family
, generating
almost
always
a
negative relation with the son, which repels in its
integral
development
.
Often this it is badly not diagnosed because the
attention
of the medico and the
family
is centered in the well - being of the baby and the new mothers, do not show its feelings, because they
fear
to be misunderstood or that they judge them negatively. In these cases, the treatment includes psycotherapy, upon which it agrees that the pair participates and in severe cases the antidepressant use.
The
psychosis
, is little frequent. It initiates in first three months after the childbirth and it is characterized by
a
disconnection with the reality, hallucinations, delirium of persecution,
insomnia
and
a
great emotional instability. The gravity of this mental
disease
as much puts in risk the
mother
as to its small one by the possibility of negligence, infantile abuse, infanticide and / or suicide.
If the presence is suspected this upheaval, is necessary to allow the
mother
to express its feelings and to treat as rapidly as possible, of preference involving to the pair, so that it includes / understands all the changes that are also passing and accept those that arises when it is papa and the baby requires of most of the time of the pair.
It is not possible to avoid the
depression
,
but
during the
pregnancy
he is advisable to prepare
itself
for the numerous changes of life style that are going to arise. It is suggested:
To inquire about the manifestations and depresivas alterations well posparto.
To take care of the feeding, since certain nutrimentales deficiencies can produce
a
greater hormonal imbalance. To control much the foods that contain
copper
, at the same time that
a
deficit
of which they contain
zinc
contributes to the
depression
. The rich
zinc
foods are the eggs, the seeds of
sunflower
and the
integral
bread.
the carbohydrates and the vitamins of the complex B (
B1
,
b3
,
b6
,
b12
) help to elevate the spirit, reason why it is recommended to consume foods like the banana, the fresh
cheese
, the dry turkey, dates, the leavening of beer, soya, the fish and in
integral
cereals.
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