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- Medical Video: Postpartum Depression: How to Deal With Baby Blues
- What causes baby blues?
- How long baby blues take place?
- How to help someone with baby blues?
Medical Video: Postpartum Depression: How to Deal With Baby Blues
A few days after giving birth, you may feel depressed, easy to cry, and easily angry. This condition is also known as baby blues. Baby blues very common. As many as 8 out of 10 mothers experienced changes in moodafter giving birth.
You might feel:
- Worried about the health of the baby, even though the baby is fine
- Restless
- Can't concentrate
- Tired, but can't sleep
- Easy to cry without cause
What causes baby blues?
Baby blues estimated to be related to hormonal changes during the early weeks of birth. Your body will experience many adjustments, such as decreasing the adrenaline that you feel when giving birth to your baby.
The pregnancy hormone will slowly disappear when you start producing milk. Your diet will change. Not only will changes in the physical be happening, but also your emotions will be affected, because of the pressure of a big responsibility on your baby.
The fact that your new role as a parent might actually be realized after you leave the hospital and go through the first few days. Even though you love being a mother, your new role can make you feel depressed.
You may feel confused how to care for your baby and feel the anticlimax after giving birth to your baby. You may feel tired and find it difficult to get enough sleep at night or during the day, even if at all possible.
How long baby blues take place?
Don't worry, your situation will improve soon. Baby blues is not a disease and usually only lasts a few hours or days. You may feel the peak baby blues between the 3rd and 5th day after your baby is born.
Baby blues will disappear in a few days without the need to visit a doctor. With enough rest and support from around, you will begin to feel better.
However, if you feel depressed after a month or more having a baby, you might experience it Postnatal Depression (PND) aka postpartum depression. If you feel you have PND, contact a doctor who can provide advice, support, and treatment.
How to help someone with baby blues?
If you are a partner, relative, or friend of a suffering mother baby blues, make sure that this is normal. He may feel tired and unsure of himself. Try to:
- Help set the time for him
- Helps cook for him
- Suggest resting enough
- He realized that he was a good mother
- Limit guests who come
- Let him cry if he needs it
- Listen to it
The important thing is to make him feel that you will always be there for him. Also give him the opportunity to have his own time.
Hello Health Group does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
