Postpartum psychosis: Risk factors identification
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Postpartum psychosis: detection of risk and management.
Mrs. A, a 34-year-old married mother who lived with her husband and their 5year-old daughter, strangled her infant son to death 3 weeks after birth. She had a planned, healthy pregnancy with some depression at 28 weeks’ gestation. She had a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery, giving birth to a healthy boy, “B.” She began breastfeeding immediately. From postpartum days 2 through 11, her depress...
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عنوان ژورنال: North American Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1947-2714
DOI: 10.4103/1947-2714.134373