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Effects of Medication on Infants at Delivery

The following study provides helpful information about the use of antidepressant medication during pregnancy and its effects on infants after delivery. I find the results of this study comforting — not that I think any ill effects on babies are a good thing...

Genes and Depression

by Katherine Stone | 0 comments

Here’s some news I saw on msn.com today about women and depression. Note especially the part I highlighted: FRIDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) — Women are more likely than men to inherit major depression from their parents, a U.S. study finds. Researchers...

Survivor Photo Album

by Katherine Stone | 4 comments

One thing I’ve noticed on the talk show coverage of postpartum mood disorders is that they always only show sobbing, desperate mothers. I, of course, have been a sobbing, desperate mother, but now I am a smiling, confident and joyous mother! They never show the...

Infertility Treatments and PPD

by Katherine Stone | 1 comment

A week or so ago someone asked me whether there were any proven links between infertility treatments and postpartum mood disorders. Today I found this article from last August (how did I miss this?), about some research on the subject: In the the journal Fertility and...