After Delivery - Postnatal - The Puerpirium

Postnatal depression (cont.)
If you feel this way you are not alone. Please talk to someone and get professional help, so that you can enjoy your experience of being a mother (and father, as the case may be).

A very small number of women develop severe depression or psychosis after delivery, typically becoming quiet, withdrawn and inappropriate in their behaviour. These women need specialist psychiatric help, often requiring formal admission and drug therapy to restore the mother to her normal self.

Weblinks

Pregnancy

www.ob-ultrasound.net
www.drspock.com
www.thefetus.net
www.nct-online.org
www.rcog.org.uk/guidelines
www.babycentre.co.uk
www.nutrition.org.uk/facts/dietthrulife/pregnancy.html

See next page for more weblinks.