Results:Intra-uterine pack with sterilized gauze could control postpartum hemorrhage successfully, decrease rate of emergency hysterectomy.
For women receiving donor milk, the reasons are plenty, including a major postpartum bleed.
While postpartum psychosis is a serious risk, it's a risk that can be treated, and often prevented, with medication.
However, this was also the case with seasonal affective disorder and postpartum depression, which are now formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine surveyed 158 pregnant and postpartum women undergoing treatment for depression at UNC's Perinatal Psychiatry Clinic.
Conclusion: Misprostol has a stronger efficacy on uterine contraction, and has a safe prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in the parturient with high risk factor.
Six months postpartum, the rate of high levels of depressive symptoms was not significantly different between groups: 9.67% for women assigned to DHA supplementation and 11.19% in the placebo group.
Even more alarming, bipolar women are 100 times more likely than other women to experience postpartum psychosis, a severe mood disorder that, at its very worst, can result in infanticide.
How to get a jump-start: get to know established midwives and doulas in your area and ask if you can witness a birth or postpartum counseling session to see if the field's for you.
