Post-Partum Depression for Dads?
Robin Cook Kopelman, Ph.D., a psychiatrist at the Iowa Depression and Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa, surveyed 808 new fathers in eastern Iowa, and found that 10.7 percent of them tested positive for depression. For new mothers, the rate usually is around 13 percent.
This doesn't come as a surprise to me. While my husband didn't experience post-partum depression, I remember he was exhausted and run down and came down with a nasty cold--and many of my friends' husbands also got a variety of ailments (from hurting their backs to bronchitis) after their kids were born. At the time, I found this amusing. We just went through 20 plus hour of labor, and they're feeling under the weather? But now it's clear to me that, as gender roles have become less rigidly defined, men are beginning to experience many of the same emotional pressures during pregnancy and after.
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