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Depression Turns Off The Music In The Mother-Baby Dance
By Depressed Jane | April 30, 2008
Your newborn is crying. If it’s a cry of pain, you’re going to respond more strongly than you would to a cry of hunger - that’s the normal pattern. But if you suffer from post-partum depression, the difference between your response to the pain cry and the hunger cry is going to be even greater. And this, says psychologist Alison Fleming, isn’t necessarily a good thing. As part of a study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Dr.
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