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It's OK If You Don't Want To Have Sex During Pregnancy
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Tips for Distinguishing Between Normal Worrying and Postpartum Anxiety
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The signs of postpartum anxiety can often blend together with seemingly normal postpartum worries. Here are some tips for teasing the two apart and determining what to do next. As I hurriedly scanned through the symptom checklist peering up at me from yet another post-partum screener, very few of the questions seemed to convey how I felt. Have I “been so unhappy that I have had difficulty sleeping?” Nope. Was I feeling “sad or miserable?” Also no. Holding my baby daughter, I was the happiest I had ever been and certainly did not feel depressed. But something was definitely off as I couldn’t just relax and soak up that post-baby bliss everyone seemed to talk about. The cloud of worry that swirled around us seemed to intensify like a hurricane, gusting away the feelings of joy and churning up the constant dread of something happening to my baby. In hindsight, I realized I was one of the approximately 10-20% of mothers who experience Postpartum Anxiety, (PPA) according to the International Journal of Women’s Health. However, this number is likely higher, partially because it only conveys reported cases and also because there isn’t a common screener or tool currently used to diagnose anxiety after childbirth. (The widely used Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, or EPDS, screener is only designed to detect depression, but not anxiety.) Knowing Read the full article
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