Treatment For Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression affects not only the woman but her infant as well as her entire family. Here's everything you need to know about this condition which affects women right after childbirth.

The drug will be available to patients only through a restricted distribution program at certified facilities - such as doctors' offices or clinics - where health care providers can carefully monitor the patient. It will carry a "boxed warning," which is the strongest warning required by the FDA.

Using light treatment in the late third trimester when seasonal day length is shortening, could minimize postpartum depressive symptoms in high-risk mothers during the first three months of their children's lives.

The news that "Nashville" actress Hayden Panettiere is in treatment for postpartum depression is getting a lot of attention. And, frankly, that's great. Why? Because a huge number of new moms suffer from it and many suffer in silence. Or they don't know how to get help, or even that they should get help.

For women suffering from depression after delivering a baby, treatment with antidepressants does not interfere with losing the weight gained during pregnancy.

Postpartum depression affects not only the woman but her infant as well as her entire family. Here's everything you need to know about this condition which affects women right after childbirth.

The drug will be available to patients only through a restricted distribution program at certified facilities - such as doctors' offices or clinics - where health care providers can carefully monitor the patient. It will carry a "boxed warning," which is the strongest warning required by the FDA.

Using light treatment in the late third trimester when seasonal day length is shortening, could minimize postpartum depressive symptoms in high-risk mothers during the first three months of their children's lives.

The news that "Nashville" actress Hayden Panettiere is in treatment for postpartum depression is getting a lot of attention. And, frankly, that's great. Why? Because a huge number of new moms suffer from it and many suffer in silence. Or they don't know how to get help, or even that they should get help.

For women suffering from depression after delivering a baby, treatment with antidepressants does not interfere with losing the weight gained during pregnancy.