Word: postpartum
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BABY BLUES Postpartum depression is no fun for Mom, but scientists say it's pretty bad for infants too. A new report shows that depressed mothers and their newborns both have high levels of the stress hormone cortisol and that an infant's cortisol level remains high for months--even after Mom's level returns to normal...
...time for killing her daughter and committing credit-card fraud--to a facility that allows children, so that she could take custody of her fourth child, Cornilous, 2. In an earlier, related action, Montgomery County (Md.) circuit court Judge Michael Mason had ruled that Pixley was free of the postpartum depression that had caused her to kill her daughter, and that it was in Cornilous' "best interest" that he be returned to his biological mother...
Cleaning up after themselves, as Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson did, seems like a quaint gesture of guilt next to a hasty return to the prom for a postpartum spin around the dance floor. There's not a flicker of humanity in these cases, and there are more of them being reported, if not more of them happening. No one keeps comprehensive statistics on abandoned babies, but in Los Angeles County last year, there were 10 newborns left to die; two summers ago, three were discarded in Southern California beach communities. In Monmouth County, N.J., where Drexler left her baby...
...skill of nurses even though she had a narrow escape while under an R.N.'s care. "Within hours of the birth of my daughter last spring, I was in unspeakable pain," wrote Evans, 34. "I was unable to convince the nurse that I was experiencing something more than postpartum pain." After hours of pleading, Evans was operated on for internal bleeding. "I think the nurse was not really listening to what I was telling her," she says. "She may have been overworked. But I can only imagine the outcome if a technician had been dealing with me instead...
...Estrogen may help women overcome POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION. After three months of taking the hormone, 80% of British women studied were no longer depressed...