The postpartum period is one of the most intense in a mother’s life. But it is also a moment of great vulnerability, which can be accompanied by real psychological suffering. In France, scientists for the first time studied the mental health of mothers two months after giving birth. Their work that has been published Weekly Epidemiological Bulletinshows that an average of 16.7% of them are affected by postpartum depression (PPD), that more than a quarter suffer from anxiety, and that one in twenty women will experience suicidal thoughts in the first months after giving birth.
The team of Nolven Regnot, Head of Perinatal, Early Childhood and Mental Health at Public Health France, worked on data collected during the National Perinatal Survey (ENP) at the end of 2021. This large-scale study is conducted every five to six years on a representative sample of women who have given birth in France in the same…
Source: Le Figaro
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