Pregnancy and Depression:
Depression during pregnancy is far too common – and too often ignored 1in 5 women are depressed but few are getting treatment for depression studies have shown that depressed women have a higher risk of preterm births, complications and their babies have lower birth weights, behavioural problems and delayed cognitive and language treatment, therefore a woman’s child bearing years are also her highest risk time for depression because the hormones and brain chemistry involved in depression are known to be affected by changes in other hormones related to pregnancy which may affect the fetes also. The women who suffer from depression during pregnancy also have poorer over all health, drink alcohol, and smoke also but this % is in women who are living in cities where medical treatment can be given to them, but what about the women who live in villages and remote areas?
They also suffer from depression but their condition is never paid a heed to by their husbands because they think their wives as incubators and not a living being who is the same as any educated woman the reason for such an attitude of men towards their pregnant wives is lack of education from both sides husbands/wives, dominance of husbands, presence of uncountable children already, and lastly in-laws of the woman who consider a daughter in-law nothing more then a reproductive machine, but due to all these reasons what becomes of the woman? She and her future are hung like a pendulum with no answers given to her suppressed desires, care and medical help.