Postpartum depression is a type depression disorders among women who gave birth to new born baby, starting just after ten to fifteen days and up to a year after giving birth. Postnatal depression affects one in seven women after birth and this can course great impact on the mother’s health and wellbeing as well as it will impact on the infant’s development (Armstrong & Small, 2010). According current literature shows that the signs for postnatal depression are feeling of sadness, hopeless, disengaging, and crying with no reason and others. Postnatal depression can be result in being mild to severe condition. Prevalence of depression is the measure on how frequently or commonly a disease is prevailed among the population. In Australia, postnatal
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There are several scholarly and theoretical measurements toward the reason on the development of sally’s postnatal depression. Sally’s mental illness can therefore be of a biological, socio-culturally, environmentally or psychological. Therefore, sally’s condition will be explained by using biological and emotional changes. Present literature reviews have observed that a family past of depression is the single enormous component for first onset of depression in adolescence as well as in childhood and as the same time is the one of the significant factor throughout the life period. With regard to this a number of researches have reported that and connection between postnatal depression and a relative past of affective illness. Additionally, there is agreement of opinion in the previous literature that a relative history of psychopathology involves both genetic inheritances and psychosocial contributions such as social learning issues. In regards to Sally mental illness this is the main factor that contributed to her mental problem. Changes emotional can be very daunting for new mother. For instance sally has to deal with constant demands of the baby, infant not sleeping, loss of her independence; these hormonal changes would be hard for sally to cope with her new born baby Eastwood, Jalaludin, Kemp, Phung &Barnett (2012). Sally was staying at home and she left her job for taking care of her baby but deep inside she didn’t liked it as she stated “isn’t this meant to be a …show more content…
Nurses and midwifes encounter numerous problems in their operations. Firstly, their concerns being on both the child and the mother’s health, creates a wider scope of health assessments, some of which are difficult to administer. This includes lack of early detection of Postnatal Depression. Some mothers are later seen to exhibit symptoms of emotional and mental disturbances. This may lead to the mother’s failure to cooperate with the nurses for their own welfare as well as that of the child. In the case scenario, Sally’s comments that she feels so distance to her child Becky. This indicates her limited attention to the child. She gets into self-blame, as the expected feelings of happiness after getting the baby are not there. Her self-worth is affected as she feels that she did not deserve to be a mother. Secondly, some patients may not be willing to be assessed for postnatal depression. This may affect. Sally is reluctant when informed on session with a doctor for assessment. This may lead to giving of wrong information or failure to disclose some information. This may affect midwifery
There are several scholarly and theoretical measurements toward the reason on the development of sally’s postnatal depression. Sally’s mental illness can therefore be of a biological, socio-culturally, environmentally or psychological. Therefore, sally’s condition will be explained by using biological and emotional changes. Present literature reviews have observed that a family past of depression is the single enormous component for first onset of depression in adolescence as well as in childhood and as the same time is the one of the significant factor throughout the life period. With regard to this a number of researches have reported that and connection between postnatal depression and a relative past of affective illness. Additionally, there is agreement of opinion in the previous literature that a relative history of psychopathology involves both genetic inheritances and psychosocial contributions such as social learning issues. In regards to Sally mental illness this is the main factor that contributed to her mental problem. Changes emotional can be very daunting for new mother. For instance sally has to deal with constant demands of the baby, infant not sleeping, loss of her independence; these hormonal changes would be hard for sally to cope with her new born baby Eastwood, Jalaludin, Kemp, Phung &Barnett (2012). Sally was staying at home and she left her job for taking care of her baby but deep inside she didn’t liked it as she stated “isn’t this meant to be a …show more content…
Nurses and midwifes encounter numerous problems in their operations. Firstly, their concerns being on both the child and the mother’s health, creates a wider scope of health assessments, some of which are difficult to administer. This includes lack of early detection of Postnatal Depression. Some mothers are later seen to exhibit symptoms of emotional and mental disturbances. This may lead to the mother’s failure to cooperate with the nurses for their own welfare as well as that of the child. In the case scenario, Sally’s comments that she feels so distance to her child Becky. This indicates her limited attention to the child. She gets into self-blame, as the expected feelings of happiness after getting the baby are not there. Her self-worth is affected as she feels that she did not deserve to be a mother. Secondly, some patients may not be willing to be assessed for postnatal depression. This may affect. Sally is reluctant when informed on session with a doctor for assessment. This may lead to giving of wrong information or failure to disclose some information. This may affect midwifery