Dad Can Experience Postpartum Depression After Having a Baby - All the parents were happy when welcoming the baby. But the mother prone to baby blues or postpartum depression. But make no mistake, postpartum depression can also be experienced by the child's father after they were born, you know.
Explained practitioners of applied neuroscience, Anne Gracia, postpartum depression in fathers usually happens because he felt a bit shocked to see the condition of the newborn is so fragile. As a result, the father was afraid to do anything to the baby for fear of hurting the little guy.
"In fact, with his role as a father, a husband definitely want to do something for her. So it's like he wants to help the child, do something, but could not," Anne said in a conversation with detikHealth and written on Friday (04/10/2015) .
Form of postpartum depression can be a father for fear of rejection to meet the baby. Or, are reluctant to hold the baby for reasons not yet ready. In fact, according to Anne could have been because so fear or panic, he did not want to see his father. There is also a moody father's, though this condition is rare.
"Thus, a new father to have children or already have children but far enough distance the child's need to be given information and support. The family, medical personnel also play a role here. So the doctor often tuh wife when new birth, the husband called his patients described how conditions child and his mother, it is important. If it was not discussed will definitely make the panic even see his father wrote not want to, "said Anne.
The fear experienced by the father, said Anne, can also arise because he was depressed when he saw the birth process wife. Moreover, for instance, when the birth of the child did not cry then patted so cry. Not to mention when the father also saw the child put into an incubator, so it can be said to be the father of shock.
To avoid postpartum depression in fathers, preparation needs to be done ahead of time before a child is born. Dad can be a wide variety of video or contains information about how the condition of the newborn as well as convinced, either by a doctor or a person around when the baby can certainly survive even though at birth he looked very frail. So that, later the father was ready mentally to welcome a newborn child.
As a result of postpartum depression in fathers, if the child's sense of rejection for a moment, not necessarily he will record and store in its memory the father's rejection. However, if postpartum depression was prolonged, the child may also feel the rejection was that he felt unwelcome presence.
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