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Pregnancy And Depression - How To Guard Mothers Against Depression During Pregnancy

Pregnancy and depression are closely linked to one another. Depression during pregnancy is difficult to avoid due to various hormonal and other changes taking place in a woman?s body. Depression can be dangerous to the health of both the fetus and the mother. Pregnancy marks a time when women tend to undergo extreme highs and lows of emotion. The emotions of pregnant women tend to be highly varying, moving from the feelings of extreme elation to that of depression. Keeping the negative effects of the depression during pregnancy in mind, medical professionals alert expecting mothers from being gripped by depression.

What Causes Depression During Pregnancy?

The medical experts have been closely studying the relation between pregnancy and depression and how to keep pregnant women at safe distance from worries, anxieties, negative feelings etc. Becoming pregnant gives rise to a variety of feelings, but there are also those hormonal changes, which are inevitable during pregnancy. These hormonal changes result in drastic mood swings from happiness to the extreme grief to anger. Medications and several birth control pills taken prior to pregnancy interfere with ovulation and tend to generate bio-chemic alterations in a women?s body, thereby contributing to increased levels of depression during pregnancy. Most women find strive to find ways in which depression can be eradicated during pregnancy.

Depression in pregnancy results from the hormonal secretion in the mother?s body which is required to support the development of baby. There are several external factors which lead pregnant women to feel depressed. other These factors can be the levels of stress arising from health matters, finances required to support the pregnancy treatment and the baby after delivery, other kids, relationship with the spouse and other family members, previous experience of infertility etc. The symptoms of depression during pregnancy is marked by an frequently feeling low, helpless, neglected and insecure about how her loved ones feel about her. Women tend to be tearful, short tempered and feel irritated. Expecting mothers are found to travel between highs and lows of moods and their energy levels are directed in response to the changes in mood. Women in pregnancy and depression can also feel extremely restless and feel like hurting their babies, even themselves. Risks of suicides also happen to increase among women during this phase.

Medications Helpful To Reduce Depression During Pregnancy

There are several drugs are available to reduce the chances of being caught by depression during pregnancy. There are anti-depressant drugs such as Valium, Xanax, Prozac, and similar drugs of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) family of drugs that can be taken before pregnancy to avoid depression. These medications are known to influence the neurotransmitters of the brain and change some particular signals.

These drugs have been shown to lead patient?s brain to function in different manner to oppose depression and affect mood changes. There are negative side effects of these drugs that are perceived through adverse effect on the growth of fetus in terms of breathing problems, malformation of cardiac organs and many more. Therefore, look for natural remedies through proper nutrition and meditation, and take adequate rests to weaken the connection between your pregnancy and depression.

Pregnancy is the means of joy for most of the women, but at times pregnancy and depression becomes synonym for some new moms. The pressure of the new responsibility, effect of changes in the body and the restricted freedom is the reason for this pregnancy problems. You should not worry much about this temporary phase, as the attraction of your newborn baby will wipe of all the fears and stress. Visit Pregnancy Period for more information.

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Resolved Question: pregnancy and depression?
In my family we have a history of chronic depression, When i was younger i had to take zoloft but i didnt like taking meds and took therapy into my own hands.. I can deal with my problems now, and i havent taken any medicine for years now, No problems.. My question is.. Does my history make me more of a higher risk of getting postpartum deppression? I heard sometimes it can get bad if untreated. Or am i just as risk as everyone else? I was just wondering because my husband says he is worried about it, im just trying to ease our minds if possible.

Resolved Question: It is possible to be born with depression ?
I had terrible twos since I was born what I mean is I hardly ever smiled as a baby always threw tantrums and find myself with deppression and emotional issue could their be a link between the pregnancy and depression? um to that certain person I AM THE BABY IM REFERING TO IM NOT PREGNAT

Resolved Question: Difference between moodiness in pregnancy and depression?
I know it's normal to feel more emotional during pregnancy, and this has been an emotional week for everyone (with the VT shootings and all), but I have been crying on and off for days. I want to cry all the time. Is this normal, or should I start to worry about depression?

Resolved Question: pregnancy and depression...questions?
I am 6 months pregnant with my second child, my daughter being 2 years old. I have had sort of a rough pregnancy this year and I feel like maybe I have depression. Not the serious, totally debilitating kind where you can't work and care for your family, but the kind of overall sadness/lack of enjoyment kind. Between the stress of work and the terrible twos AND the horormones, I am really worried about what will happen AFTER the baby comes, during the postpartum period. I don't want any medication now because of the baby, but I want to be put on something afterward. Hindsight being what it is, I think that I had a mild postpartum depression after my first child during the first four or five months but I didn't want to deal with that fact - and I didn't have any problems with it while I was pregnant, just afterwards. I want to talk about it with my OB but I'm scared he won't take me seriously. I'm also worried about breastfeeding should I go on anything - can you even breastfeed if you are taking medication for that? So many questions - I wish it were easier. thanks.

Resolved Question: teen pregnancy and depression??
i heard somewhere that teen girls will try to get pregnant as a cure for depression. can anyone elaborate on this?

Resolved Question: Napping Pregnancy and Depression??????
I am 35 and work a full time job. I have 2 kids and I am pregnant at 18 weeks with my 3rd child. I just got married and not two weeks later I found out I was expecting. I was pretty sick with evening morning sickness, headaches that made me very tired. I work my butt off at work running a motel and I have the weekends off. Usually one day of the weekend I lay around and watch TV and take a nap. My husband and My sister and mother are calling me lazy and it is making me really depressed. I feel like such a failure that I just don't jump out of the bed on the weekends wanting to take on the world. Now, I am mad at all of them and can't stop crying about how I have been made to feel. Am I over reacting?

Resolved Question: Pregnancy and Depression!!! Please Help!!!?
So I'm 36 weeks pregnant and recently I've been feeling extremely depressed. For some reason I've started feeling really ugly and really fat and it's really affecting me. I'm crying all the time and I know it sounds so vain but it really hurts me. I feel sad constantly and my husband doesn't help the matter at all. I always see him looking at other women and it really hurts me because he makes me feel uglier and fatter all the time. If I'm having this depression now what are the chances that I will likely get post partum depression? Do any of you other pregnant women feel this way?

Resolved Question: Is it pregnancy hormones or pre-partum depression?
I am usually very happy and optimistic. When I get into a problem, usually I dwell for a moment,vent, and balance myself out. It doesn't tend to linger for as long as it seems to now. I am 16 weeks pregnant and feel lonely and despair often. I know the changing hormone levels lead to changes in mood and emotion, but I am beginning to wonder if it's possible that I have slight depression. I just feel like internally I am going crazy--as if I am being emotionally stretched. So many of the symptoms of pregnancy and depression overlap, so I am really confused. I don't have thoughts of harming the baby or myself. I just feel so many emotions so much more strongly and accompanied by so many more. The feeling of despair is new to me. I am usually very motivated, but I am have little motivation to work or even go out. I can't tell if this is pregnancy fatigue or something else. Depression does not run in my family. Anyone with any relevant experience or info please comment.

Resolved Question: Pregnancy and depression-How to cope?
I'm expecting my first child in April. I'm 18 years old and pregnant. It makes me really depressed even though I know it's my fault,I feel very alone because my boyfriend doesn't understand what I'm going through. I have tried 4 anti depressants and none of them has helped me at all. I struggle to make it through the day and really nothing makes me happy anymore. Today while moving some of my stuff to the new house I just bursted into tears and had to quit. I have been crying ever since. I've tried getting a job,getting hobbies and doing whatever I can to just cope with how horrible I feel but even that doesn't work and I feel like there's nowhere to turn. I don't think I can make it nother two and a half months without going completely insane. Has anyone else felt like this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated I've had a horrible day.

Resolved Question: i really need help can someone please advise me, pregnancy and depression?
lately i have been having some major problems with my fiance assaulting me, police and now social services. They are putting my unborn son under child protection section 47, i am worried sick 24/7 and cry myself to sleep all the time that they will take my baby away from me, they are causing me to feel very depressed with how they are going on and i just want them to leave me alone and let me live my life. I dread every morning i wake up knowing that this could happen to me, i can honestly say if they ever took my son away from me i would kill myself he is my world and my whole life :(

Voting Question: Pregnancy and Depression, am i depressed or just emotional?
Im about 4 months pregnant and throughout my pregnancy i have had a crazy emotional roller coaster from my baby's dad breaking up with me to getting back with me, to my father calling me no good and kicking me out of the house to not having enough guts to tell me he wants me to move back in (had to find that out though my younger sister) then having to go to school and deal with the stress from that, having no job or money i will admit i do have a loving family after the drama between my father and i he has come to support me and so does the rest of my family and my baby's dad's family so i know that since im pregnant and all im going to have to go though an emotions but it seems like i cry a lot and all the time, i could be having a good day at school or a nice day at home but by night time i just get so sad today was no different, i went to church and it went well; i learned a lot, then babysat for a few hours for my older sister, got a little homework done then went to visit my baby's dad; we watched a movie but right now at this very moment i just feel so sad, unloved, unappreciated, alone and so on whats going on with me? am i just going though the motions or am i actually depressed?

Resolved Question: Pregnancy and depression?
I have been dealing with depression off and on for several years now. I was previously on remeron but upon learning of my pregnancy I stopped taking it. I am now 24 weeks pregnant. I have been getting more and more depressed as this pregnancy has progressed. I am terrified to take anti-depressants while I am pregnant because of what it could possibly do to the baby. Please share any information you may have about taking anti-depressants during pregnancy. I would like to know the risks. People, if I quit taking the meds for fear of endangering my baby then why would I start taking them again without consulting a doctor? I am depressed not lacking common sense. Please don't answer the question if you don't have any.

Voting Question: Pregnancy and depression. I've taken a desicion. Is it the best?
My boyfriend and I have been dating for 2 years and I got pregnant during the last vacations when I went to visit him in Europe during July. Now I'm back in South America and things have become very difficult between us. Since I told him about the baby, he's become colder and more stressful. I've been trying to be patient but I only gained more and more stress due to the million discussions we had both on msn and phone. I feel this stress is making me more sick and added to this, the fact that I've always suffered from migrain is also a big problem. So, the desicion I've taken is to avoid all sort of communication with him, at least until my pregnancy is over. I have my friends and family to help me and that seems to help a lot. Now, I would like some words from any of you and say if my desicion has been the most correct. Thanks.

Resolved Question: I was just wondering about pregnancy and depression?
So when someone has depression and they take antidepressants and stuff. Most things you cant take while pregnant. So your just going to be like super depressed the whole pregnancy?? Also the whole thing about baby blues and stuff? If you have depression is it more likely for you to get prenatal depression or whatever its called. I have depression and I want to have a baby.

Resolved Question: Pregnancy And Depression...Thanks L-Tisha(update)?
Thanks for that website L-Tisha, it really helped I went in there today and going to go weekly. Mom and Moms-to-be.....if you think you are suffering from depression while being pregnant or after having a baby I highly recommend this website to find a pregnancy center near you: http://www.pregnancycenters.org/advantage.asp Just my one 'class/meeting' today helped me out so much. I feel a lot better today, and I know with my continued classes things will only get better. I learned it's not 'just hormones' during pregnancy, there are many things that can lead to depression during pregnancy and you should get it taken care of right away before it gets too serious! These centers are FREE!!! The particular one I go to I earn Mommy Money to spend on a new crib, clothes, strollers, car seats etcs from each class I take, and each time I come in. So if you don't think you can afford a 'counselor' this is the best route to go. It was by far a wonderful experience and I look forward to my weekly meets. So please don't get to the point I got last night where you wonder if 'its' worth it, b/c this goes further than hormones, and is something serious you need help with. Thanks L-Tisha and the others for the kind words. This is just what I needed! God Bless!!!!

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