Postnatal depression can be better taken as a syndrome. This is a problem which may attack a woman as soon as she gives birth to a child. This syndrome develops an emotional change which is moreover in negative sense towards the infant. This state is not good for the mother as well as for the child. In this situation neither the emotional bond which is required between the duos develops, nor there do any support to the baby from his mother.  In worst cases, either of them may face extreme situations like death.

In postnatal syndrome, the feeling of any unwanted happening or negative thoughts surrounds the woman which keeps her uneasy. These situations develops a negative though or feeling for her own baby who has nothing to do with these thoughts. But, the syndrome makes the woman feel that the baby is responsible for these thoughts which creates a gap between the mother and the child. This is a kind of depression which is needs care and cure to get rid of it. In such cases, the major symptoms of depression are hatred towards the child and uneasiness.

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Post natal depression is a serious mental health issue. It impacts ten percent of pregnant women.  It can affect the bond between baby and mother, it may also places strain between couples and within family relationships.  It is often viewed negatively by the community and by family members. However it need not be. It is curable and a natural common occurrence.

A recent study by researchers A.Daley, K.Jolly and C.MacArthur Oxford University 2009 have found that exercise along with social support can help ward off postnatal depression.  Post natal depression symptoms include sadness, fatigue, changes in sleeping and eating patterns, reduced libido, crying episodes, anxiety, and irritability.

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Fish Oil Capsules During Pregnancy, No Effect On Baby’s Intelligence Or Post-natal Depression Risk

Pregnant women who take DHA fish oil capsules during pregnancy do not reduce their risk of developing post-natal depression, nor do the supplements have any effect on the baby’s cognitive and language development during early childhood, researchers from the Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia, reported in an article published in the medical journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). Dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is often recommended to pregnant women as a way of enhancing their offspring’s intelligence as well as protecting from subsequent post-natal depression (postpartum depression). In fact, previous studies have suggested so.

The authors wrote:

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Postnatal Depression

Postnatal depression is a common depressive illness and occurs in 1 to 7 to 10 mothers; it is common for women after giving birth to a child to experience feeling low. Nobody knows what causes postnatal depression but it has been concluded  although there is no actual explanation for PND that the illness may arise due to the hormone change after childbirth also the stress of looking after a new baby and the disrupt to a mothers sleep can effect susceptible people.

Symptoms of PND;

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My daughter is 18 months old so I don’t know if it could class as PND…. but my hubby has said he has been feeling really down lately. We are going to the doc next week.

The things he has mentioned sound somewhat like typical PND thoughts:
Severe anxiety about the wellbeing of our daughter…
Worrying about something happening to him, me or Lucy.
and others things

Has anyone’s partner (or yourself for the Dad’s on here), been diagnosed with PND, and how was it treated?

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Ok i’ve got to the point where I only have 4 people (as in not the doctors, etc) inc my mom in my phone book. I’ve been to mother and toddler and made a couple of friends but they have lives beyond me everyone there does they go out have days/nights off although a young single parent like me.
My house is getting me down its gorgeous but because of the noise from the 12 other students within the converted house, the damp in the kitchen and bathroom, the one bedroom and the expense over the winter with the high ceilings no insulation its costing me £150 just on gas a month.
I have no one to talk to my moms always busy at work and I do try I honestly do but I just feel intrusive I dont like to go out to often in the winter, I ALWAYS text people I could honestly turn my phone of for a week and my mom would be the only one to bother.
I’m breastfeeding and love the bonding and dont want to go back to college till next year I lost my job on the day I got pregnant and my daughters dad doesn’t pay anything so my savings have gone, some days I just want us to disappear most nights I hold her in my arms in tears or get frustrated with her and call her awful names as I feel shes doing it to be nasty even though shes 5 months old I always hold her and apologies for being a terrible mom.
I’m just sick of saying Im fine when I’m not my mom works full time and my aunty has my other baby cousin and is usually at work.
I also sometimes hold her hand and feel I wont see her walk down the aisle or hold her hand to school it sounds terrible but next month seems impossible to reach let alone her 1st birthday. My health visitor has been in contact and her solution for the mom and toddler groups was a great idea but they have lives I just try and be a good mom and feel I fail each day, my home is clean and my baby happy but it just feels like a gap. My mom knows and medication didn’t help I just feel I’ll never get a boyfriend let alone friends, Im so depressed Im 19 have lost over 2 stone due to breastfeeding and my boobs are non existent, I was also told by a member of staff I must be lonely if Im always there as my friends live at a mom and baby unit. Im in such a mess I just want to be happy and feel ill never get there please help??? x

I gave birth at the hospital, 2 months later my daughter got sick and I spent a week in hospital, a month later my dad died (last month).. and soon I have to have an operation done.
I was happy despite everything but now I am starting to have negative emotions. I feel overwhelmed, and I don’t know if these feelings are from depression or seep deprivation – my baby had been sleeping through the night until recently, now she stays awake.
Sometimes at night when she wakes up and I’m dying for sleep, I feel so angry at the baby, that I just want to leave the room and let her scream, but I can’t do that. Though those feelings are there I could never leave her to cry alone like that..
Am I normal or what??
Family members have pointed out to me that I have been angry recently also..

What impact PND have on the lives of family members and friends of the mother
umm thanx james

One of my best friends had a baby boy a few weeks ago. She’s 18 and is from Maine so she doesnt have any family over here. (Ireland).
Both of our boyfriends and the babys dad are in a band that has been in london for the past couple of days and are staying there till the end of July so i’ve been staying with her to keep her company but ive noticed some changes in her.
I couldnt get Aaron to stop crying the other morning so i took him into her and sort of held him out to her, she just stared at me for like 30seconds before sighing and taking him off me, then as soon as i left the room he started crying again so i went back in a few minutes later with a bottle for her to give him and Aaron was lying on the bed and she was sitting on the floor crying, she told me that she had to have a shower and asked if i would feed him instead so i did.
She’s barely even held him over the past few days, she refuses to leave her house saying that shes fat and unnattractive, any time he cries, she cries too. She doesnt want to feed him, change his clothes or anything, she just keeps saying that he cries even more when shes around.

I really dont know what to do, im only 16 and have no knowledge of babies or anything but ive heard that some of these things are signs of post natal depression. I dont want to tell the babies dad in case im just over reacting but i also dont want to not do anything in case it just keeps getting worse.

I had a baby 10 weeks ago and now im feelin so sick and tired of everything my babys smile makes my day better but his crying gets on top of me and i dont mean to be nasty i love him so much and would never harm him i just think that im so tired! but the main thing is my boyfriend im convinced he fancies othe women even though i know he oves me and im very angry about my weight even though im not fat i think i am n its gettin me so down is this normal depression?