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...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...
...OPRAH AWARD: Representative Enid Waldholtz said she trusted husband Joe with her money "because I was weary of always being the strong one." In return, she said, he stole a fortune, broke campaign laws and got her to sign a phony document while she was doped up on postpartum painkillers...
...psychological level, there are as many preferred diagnoses as diagnosticians. Says Cornell: "Most typically this is in the context of a woman who is severely depressed and may also be suicidal." Indeed, that seems to be the case with Smith. Other doctors are inclined to cite psychosis or postpartum depression. Robert Hazelwood, a former FBI behavioral scientist, relates the case of a woman who became jealous of the attention her husband showered on their infant. She told her husband she was cooking a roast for dinner. When he raised the cover, she said, "You love her so much, here...
...U.S.S.R. are today independent foreign countries. Russian politicians have even coined a new phrase -- the near abroad -- to distinguish between the former republics and the rest of the world. The Russian sense of special rights and responsibilities in the near abroad is more than a matter of imperial postpartum depression. Some 25 million ethnic Russians live outside Russia but within the borders of the old union. The dominant local nationalities now treat these Russians as second- class citizens or worse...