Postpartum Depression Academic Article Comparison

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When a mother gives birth, powerful emotions can be triggered from fear, anxiety, or joy. In other ties, birth can result in an unexpected thing altogether-depression. In the case of new mothers, first-time mothers experience may experience Postpartum Depression more than non-first times mothers. In normal times Postpartum Depression occurs within the first two to three days and may go up to two weeks. Understanding Postpartum Depression, you have to differentiate it from "baby Blues" most prevalent symptoms include depressed mood and or severe mood swings, excessive crying, difficulty bonding with baby, and withdrawing from friends and family, among others. Some of the leading causes of postpartum Depression and predisposing factors include a family history of mood disorders, going through stressful events, ambivalence about the pregnancy, young age during pregnancy, history of depression before pregnancy, and having multiple births at once, among others. Postpartum Depression is characterized by psychological, social, and biological changes. Multiparous others have fewer cases of PPD in their interaction with their infants. There are various factors that play an important role, like socio-demographic factors, relational, individual, and delivery characteristics. Multiparous birth does not present complications for PPD. Socio-demographics; age is a determinant in PPD; young age presents a higher risk. Individual factors that affect PPD include the existence of Depression prior to birth. Relational factors relate o the environment of people that the mother interacts with and would trigger or prevent postpartum Depression. Factors affecting postpartum Depression are the educational level of the mother, depression history of the other or the family, working status of the mother, family support, medical issues during pregnancy, not wanting a child or unwanted pregnancy, and smoking, among other factors. Postpartum Depression is a mood disorder seen in 15 percent of postpartum women: PPD is a serious and damaging mental illness; the two articles describe the cause and the risk factors of developing postpartum depression disorder.

Article A analysis how social, individual, relational, and delivery characteristics can lead to Postpartum Depression. Individual characteristics and social characteristics like habits related to lifestyle contribute significantly to increasing the chances of postpartum depression-like smoking taking alcohol. Also, attitude toward that baby like unwanted pregnancy and the baby may trigger higher chances of a mother developing postpartum Depression (Smorti et al., 2019). The delivery characteristic, including the number of births prior to the current one, is a determinant to the risk profile that a mother may...