pregnancy and its accompanying transition to parenthood inevitably imposes various changes in the physical, social, and emotional wellbeing of women. These changes can bring about dispiriting symptoms of depressive episodes that are of great impact on the health of the mother and the infant. Historically, greater attention was placed on improving the physical care of pregnant women while neglecting their emotional state, thus alleviating perinatal depressive complications. Perinatal depression is a clinical event that includes episodes of anxiety and depression during pregnancy (antenatal) and after 1 year of the baby birth (postpartum). It is considered an important issue to the public health since it is very common in all parts of the world,
