Postpartum Psychiatric Problems

Postpartum psychiatric disorders.

This review summarises the psychiatry of the puerperium, in the light of publications during the past 5 years. A wide variety of disorders are seen. Recognition of disorders of the mother-infant relationship is important, because these have pernicious long-term effects but generally respond to treatment. Psychoses complicate about one in 1000 deliveries. The most common is related to manic depr...

Psychiatric consultation to the postpartum mother.

The immediate postpartum period is a time of acute vulnerability to mental illness, which presents unique challenges for the psychiatric consultant. Because the postpartum hospital stay is typically brief, the consultant must have a working knowledge of postpartum physiology and the myriad forms of mental illness that may emerge in this vulnerable time, in order to quickly make a diagnosis and ...

[Problems of psychiatric emergencies].

Psychiatric Problems in Children

Slower in development A premature baby is slower in development and the amount of prematurity should be added to these figures. For example, a baby born one month prematurely should smile at 6 weeks plus one month, sit up at 9 months plus one month. Many infants develop more quickly and can walk at one year, but the child who is not walking at 2 years or talking at 3 years requires investigatio...

Managing children with psychiatric problems.