What causes postpartum depression?

Postpartum depression is a postpartum psychological disease with a high incidence rate. Once a postpartum mother suffers from depression, she will show many abnormal symptoms, such as low mood, often listless, and often crying alone. Such behavior will make her family very distressed. In addition, postpartum women will become very unconfident due to depression. It can be seen that the harm is very great. So what are the causes of postpartum depression?

What causes postpartum depression?

1. Emotional changes: For first-time mothers, how to give birth to a healthy baby is a huge test. Many women are too nervous and tired after pregnancy, and the birth of the baby brings them tremendous pressure. These factors can lead to emotional collapse in women. Some women worry that they will lose their freedom after the baby arrives and feel constrained inside. This makes it easy to suffer from postpartum depression.

2. Changes in lifestyle: After giving birth, women find that everything around them has changed. For example, before giving birth, they were cared for by their mother-in-law and husband. But after giving birth, not only did their care decrease, but they also had to take on the responsibility of taking care of the baby. In addition, some women made their babies sick due to improper care. This series of changes makes women prone to self-blame and depression.

3. Physical changes: After giving birth, the body will undergo some changes, which will also affect the mood and behavior of postpartum women. You should know that a few hours after giving birth, the estrogen and progesterone levels in their bodies will tend to decline. If women are too sensitive to this change, it may lead to depression. At the same time, hormone changes, once the thyroid hormone level is too low, will cause women to experience symptoms of uncontrollable emotions, and they are prone to fatigue, tension and neurosis.

Postpartum depression is not a terminal illness. In order to solve it, in addition to actively cooperating with the doctor's treatment, you should also use emotional prenatal education instruments to regulate your emotions and keep yourself in a happy mood at all times. Only in this way can you achieve the goal of eliminating postpartum depression.

Emotional prenatal education uses music to guide imagination and heart rate variability biofeedback training to regulate the brain pressure of mothers, relax their emotions, relieve stress, and thus improve the regulatory ability of their autonomic nervous system. While improving the autonomic nervous system's regulatory ability, conditions such as postpartum anxiety, tension, and shortness of breath will also be resolved. In this way, postpartum depression will naturally be relieved.

Therefore, postpartum depression is not a very scary disease. It can be effectively alleviated as long as you actively participate in treatment. In addition, after a woman gives birth, her family should give her more care and love to help her get out of the shadow of postpartum depression.