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When Mom is depressed, everyone suffers
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30359
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , medicine , perinatal period , pediatrics , obstetrics , family medicine , psychiatry , pregnancy , psychology , economics , genetics , macroeconomics , biology
Why does the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) care about perinatal — the period before and after a child's birth — depression? Because when the mother is depressed, the health of the baby — before and after birth — can be affected. This is one of the most common — and costly — obstetric complications in the United States, according to a report released in December by the AAP.