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Background: First time mothers and their partners are faced with a number of challenges including learning new skills and changing roles to meet the baby’s needs. support the new baby. Although an exciting time, the early days of first-time parents is filled with excitement as well as challenges in adapting their lifestyle resulting in pressure and anxiety to look after the baby. The objective of this study was to explore the lived experiences of first-time mothers and their partners affected by post-natal depression (PND) among rural communities.Methods: A collaborative exploratory qualitative approach underpinned by interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on ten (10) first time mothers and their partners who came for six-week post-natal care and for growth monitoring up to 6 months post-delivery at Sanyati Baptist hospital. Data were analysed using a thematic approach and guided by the four stages of data analysis in interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA). N-vivo was used to organize the data to enhance management during analysis.Results: The study showed that first time parents from rural communities felt trapped with childbirth, overwhelmed by changes, resultant disruptive relationships, lack of support and bouts of depression.Conclusions: There is need to improve maternal support for first time mothers in rural communities. First time fathers need to learn new skills and adapt in supporting the baby and mother to prevent depression and marital breakdown.
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Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is depression that occurs after having a child. Feelings ofpostpartum depression are more intense and last longer than those of “baby blues,” a term used to describethe worry, sadness, and tiredness many women experience after having a child. This study was undertakenwith the objective to assess the magnitude of risk of Post-Partum Depression in mothers admitted forinstitutional delivery in JK HospitalMethods: It is a cross sectional analytical study. Study was conducted in outpatient department ofPsychiatry of JK Hospital, Kolar, Bhopal which is a tertiary care institution. Study was conducted for 6months amongst the population of mothers who were referred to Psychiatry OPD and who delivered in aweek before period. Convenience sampling method was adopted to conduct the study. The EPDS was themain scale used in the study.Results: Out of 8 variables of study only education level of mothers was found to be insignificant statistically.Rest of the other variables were calculated as statistically significant in our study. Edinburg PostnatalDepression Scale rating was adopted with a cut off of 8, which revealed that about 51.61% of mothers werefalling outside the risk boundary of postpartum depression.Conclusions: The EDPS is useful scale for screening for post natal depression in mothers that have recentlyundergone a delivery though further studies are needed to validate these findings.
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[Objective]To discuss the effect of post-natal depression on vaginal bleeding and lactation.[Methods]A retrospective analysis of 100 cases with complete information,including 66 cases of the control group,34 cases of post-natal depression,record the post-natal vaginal bleeding and lactation situation.[Results]The post-natal depression group 24h amount of vaginal bleeding after childbirth and lactation period was significantly higher than control group,while the volume of lactation was significantly lower than control group(P