Click here to visit the new home of ParentDish!

Hot on HuffPost Parents:

 

prenatal depression 

Does Prenatal Depression Lead to Children's Asthma?

by Tom Henderson, Posted Jul 19th 2011 4:00PM

Credit: Getty Images
Not to bum you out even more, but if you're pregnant and depressed, you're increasing your unborn child's risk of having asthma.
"Approximately 70 percent of mothers who said they experienced high levels of ...Study finds no one breathes easy when Mama is depressed.
0 COMMENTS

New Recommendations for Maternal Depression

by Honey Berk, Posted Oct 25th 2010 12:01AM

Screening for depression early on can help assure a healthy mom and healthy baby. Credit: Getty Images
Each year, more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed, which makes perinatal depression -- depression that occurs during ...Each year, more than 400,000 infants are born to mothers who are depressed, which makes perinatal depression -- depression that occurs during pregnancy or in the first year after birth -- the most under-diagnosed obstetric complication in the United States.
15 COMMENTS

FollowUs

Flickr RSS

TheTalkies

More Recent Questions: