Postpartum Quotes

We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that. - John Gottman

This study highlights the need for ongoing rest and recovery beyond four to six weeks postpartum, and the need for more support for women. - Pat McGovern

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself. - Marie Osmond

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. - Brooke Shields

Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth. - Richard J. Codey

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. - Polly Berrien Berends

One of the problems with postpartum depression is that women usually aren't diagnosed until the disease is already established. If a woman's health care provider knew early on that a patient was slipping down this slope, he or she could intervene. It may not take much to screen for it, either - the questions in the fatigue test that we used took about two to three minutes to answer. - Elizabeth Corwin

Most of these women are returning to work anywhere from six to 12 weeks after giving birth. There isn't a lot of research out there on women's general postpartum health, and almost nothing specifically looking at working women. - Pat McGovern

It was ultimately fatigue that best predicted which women would develop postpartum depression. - Elizabeth Corwin

It was really hard in the beginning when I first became pregnant it was just such a shocker. I was depressed for about five years, And I don't know if I really had postpartum depression because back then no one would talk about it. I went to therapists tried to prescribe me medication, but it didn't work. - Leslie Mann