It's a scenario that Children's emergency medicine specialist Lenore Jarvis, M.D., M.Ed., has seen countless times: A mother brings her infant to the emergency department (ED) in the middle of the ...

Postpartum depression remains undiagnosed though it is a common problem among mothers of new babies. A new research review in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry suggests that screening for postpartum ...

Do you remember your first OB/GYN visit six weeks after giving birth? I can, and what I remember most was how tired I was and how heavy the car seat felt as I balanced my baby inside it on one arm.

Standardizing postpartum depression screening in the ambulatory pediatric setting coupled with implementing a referral algorithm and referral guide can help more PPD cases be identified, further ...

Mothers of new babies should undergo screening for postpartum depression—preferably across healthcare locations and at multiple times up to one year after delivery, according to a new research review.

Most new moms experience the “baby blues.” But some struggle with far worse. Peripartum depression (an inclusive term that includes postpartum depression) is defined by Johns Hopkins Guides as a ...

Early recognition is one of the most challenging aspects of PPD. A study of 1,102 women who had recently delivered a baby found that only 49% of these women who felt seriously depressed had sought ...

Implementing the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale in the pediatric primary care setting can improve rates of early detection for postpartum depression. Screening new mothers for postpartum ...

A new iPhone app launched for free by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) looks not only to bring convenient postpartum depression (PPD) screening to more expecting and postpartum women, but also ...

This study was approved by the institutional review board at Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The PDSS tool was purchased by a grant from the Presbyterian Foundation. A ...