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I often get asked, “What causes postpartum depression and is there a way to prevent it?” Reproductive psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin and I dive deep into these questions and explore the idea of prevention. In this episode, you will learn about what situations, life experience or clinical conditions that make a woman more prone to PPD/PPA and some practical takeaways you can do to better prepare yourself for the transition to motherhood.
What You'll Learn
- The situations, life experiences or clinical conditions that make a woman more prone to experiencing PPD/PPA
- Does having PPA with the first baby means you’ll have it with the second? And, if you didn’t have it with the first baby does that mean you are protected with the next baby?
- Strategies that women who are high risk can do to prevent PPD/PPA?
- Some things all women can do to try and prevent PPD / PPA, regardless of whether high risk or not?
- What role do hormones play in PPD/ PPA?
- Why is the perinatal period such a vulnerable one for women?
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