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Abstract
Postpartum blues occur in a large group of women and constitute the most common emotional disorder developing after delivery. Depressive (10–40%) and psychotic (0.1–0.2%) disorders are much less common. According to numerous clinicians, postpartum mood worsening might increase the risk of developing postpartum depression and subsequent anxiety disorders.
The symptoms of postpartum depression developed in about 20% of women, with the diagnosis of postpartum mood worsening. Postpartum mood depression was named “a physiological side effect of a woman developing into a mother” by some authors.
Postpartum depression (PPD) may be an inadequate descriptor of maternal depression because depression onset can happen in either the antenatal or postpartum periods. Recent research suggests that a significant portion of pregnancy-related depression manifests in the antenatal period.