Social-motional challenges in children of mothers with postpartum depression

Ugeskr Laeger. 2024 Nov 4;186(45):V04240261. doi: 10.61409/V04240261.

ABSTRACT

In Denmark, approximately 5% of new mothers experience postpartum depression, potentially hindering a child’s care and stimulation for ideal social-emotional development. This literary review explores the impact of maternal postpartum depression on a child’s social-emotional development and confirms that maternal postpartum depression potentially harms the child’s social-emotional development. Nevertheless, there is cause for optimism in the literature, suggesting that the impact on the child is likely to be transient in cases of shorter durations of postpartum depression.

PMID:39535758 | DOI:10.61409/V04240261