There is much talk about the mother's mental state after giving birth. You may suffer a mild depression also called baby blues until a very marked depression in which sometimes you are not even able to take care of your own baby.
There are several investigations about depression during postpartum but not so many about the period of pregnancy, being equally important because at this point the effects of the mother's emotional state on the baby being pregnant are already known.
A study by the University of Hong Kong published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown that The feelings of anxiety and depression in the future mom can have serious consequences for both the woman and the baby, and that is also one of the factors that predisposes to suffer after a postpartum depression.
Specifically, they found that anxiety was more frequent than depression in most pregnant women and that both anxiety and depression were more common and severe during the first and third trimesters.
I suppose the first because of the novelty of the news and the risks of the first weeks and the third due to the proximity of the birth and assuming the new role of the mother waiting for him.
I would like to know if the mothers of the study were all new or not, since I think it is a factor that influences a lot, because living a pregnancy for the first time with the logical concerns of a first time and the doubts about the change of life that is Avecina is obviously more mobilizing than when we've been through it.
In conclusion of the study, to which I adhere, they have recommended that doctors should continually assess the mental health of pregnant women, an aspect that does not deepen too much.
