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Postpartum Support Strategies for Parents

The document discusses strategies for coping with postpartum depression for both women and their partners. Around 70% of new mothers experience some level of "baby blues" including feelings of being overwhelmed, tired, and alone. For women suffering from postpartum depression, the document recommends seeking counseling, talking with partners, exercise, and taking time for oneself. It also notes that estrogen, antidepressants, and psychotherapy can help treat postpartum depression. For partners of new mothers, the document suggests providing emotional support, helping with diaper changes, and spending time together during this period.

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Postpartum Support Strategies for Parents

The document discusses strategies for coping with postpartum depression for both women and their partners. Around 70% of new mothers experience some level of "baby blues" including feelings of being overwhelmed, tired, and alone. For women suffering from postpartum depression, the document recommends seeking counseling, talking with partners, exercise, and taking time for oneself. It also notes that estrogen, antidepressants, and psychotherapy can help treat postpartum depression. For partners of new mothers, the document suggests providing emotional support, helping with diaper changes, and spending time together during this period.

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Edmund Walton September 17, 2011 PSYC 302 Childhood and Adolescence Psychology Chapter 4 Written Assignment If you

are a female, what can you do to adjust effectively in the postpartum period? If you are a male, what can you do to help in the postpartum period?" In general, men and women who experience depression may feel alone. This sense of depression and aloneness applies to some women who have just given birth. According to Santrock (2010), About 70 percent of new mothers in the United States have what they call baby blues (p. 132). At times they feel overwhelmed, tired, frustrated, sleepy, and alone. But there is hope. There are many strategies that women can implement in their lives to help them cope with the postpartum period. They can seek counseling for their depression. They can converse with their spouse or significant other, if any, about their depression. Exercise helps. Taking time for herself also helps.

Santrock (2010) indicates these strategies to assist women who are suffering from postpartum depression Estrogen helps some women with postpartum depression Several antidepressant drugs are effective in treating postpartum depression and appear to be safe for breast feeding. Psychotherapy, especially cognitive therapy, also is an effective treatment (p. 133). Continuing on, women are not the only ones who are effected by postpartum period, men are too. Many times men feel abandoned by their significant others who have just given birth. But this is the time that women need men the most. Men can help by

providing emotional support, helping change the babys diapers, and spending time with their significant others.

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