Depression and anxiety in the mother's postpartum have a negative effect on the child with respect to the ability of social involvement, adjustment of fear and stress responses.
Babies of depressed mothers have received worse scores than the other in each of the parameters: lowest level of involvement in social interactions with his mother; inability to self-regulation in situations where innovations are introduced, shaking and crying more often, more physiological levels (cortisol) stress in both normal and stressful situations.
The sensitivity of the mother against the baby's behavior is the best protection against the negative effects of depression and anxiety.
These studies are important because they help to understand that maternal depression and anxiety affect certain aspects of the development of the infant and allow to better understand how to act from the therapeutic point of view.
"Maternal Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Across the Year and Infant Social Engagement, Fear Regulation, and Stress Reactivity. "
Feldman R, Granat A, Pariente C, H Kanety, Kuint J, Gilboa-Schechtman E.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2009; 48:919-927.
Associated With Postpartum Depression Impaired Social Engagement And Physiological Stress Reactivity
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