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PTSD high among new mothers
Nine percent of women in a United States national survey met the criteria for diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder following their births, according to new research in the journal Birth. Researchers found that “pressure to have an induction and epidural analgesia,” “planned cesarean birth,” and “not exclusively breastfeeding at one month” were among the predictive variables. Read the abstract.
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