Freud psychoanalytical theory contributes to postpartum depression because they have discovered that more than 1 in every 10 women within a year of giving birth are suffering from a depression that is unknown to them. This is an effect of the unconscious mind. Women sometimes start feeling depressed during pregnancy due to their hormone levels and seeing in their body changing and not linking it. They start feeling constant sadness and low mood. Now more women are suffering from postpartum depression after giving birth. The cause of less sleep and less time to themselves it starts to make the feel anxious. They feel lost within themselves with no escape. The mother rejection towards the infant could lead to the mother refusing to breastfeed
