Lisette Bamenga, a former New York City teacher accused of the 2012 murders of her two children, five-year-old son Trevor Noel Jr. and four-month-old daughter Lillian Noel, was sentenced to eight years prison yesterday.
A new app has developed by researchers at the University of North Carolina for the purposeful of potentially finding genetic clues about postpartum depression. PPD ACT, free and available for iPhone, will be part of Apple’s ResearchKit and will ask users a series of questions about anxiety and sadness after pregnancy…
The United States Preventative Services Task Force—an influential panel of experts in primary care and preventative medicine—recommended on Tuesday that women should be screened for depression during and after pregnancy, the New York Times reports.
We don't know much about 34-year-old dental hygienist Miriam Carey, who was shot and killed by police yesterday after she crashed into a barricade outside the White House and led a high-speed chase to the U.S. Capitol — with her toddler still in her carseat — but we do know that her shooting has given pundits yet…
Researchers have identified two genes that seem to indicate the onset of postpartum depression. A blood test could help detect which pregnant women are at risk for the condition, with the hopes that they could receive early treatment to reduce its intensity or prevent it from developing at all.
If you have had yourself a baby, then you've likely experienced the infamous "hormone crash" that comes with it — the out-of-this-world soar of humanity-affirming juice that makes you feel pain-free, lightweight and crazy in love with your offspring, followed by the swift, unceremonious thud of reality that hits a few…
Great news, ball busting career women with no time to trifle with babies until you're at least in the C-suite: having your first child later in life is no more likely to lead to depression than having a child early in life. But boarding the motherhood train just a few minutes before it leaves the station may still may…
In recent years there's been an effort to inform people that the weeks and months after you give birth aren't always spent blissfully cooing at your newborn while sitting in a rocking chair bathed in sunlight. In fact, there's a chance you'll develop terrible depressive and even suicidal thoughts. Now one hospital is…
Research suggests that fathers, too, can suffer from postpartum depression. But not everyone's buying it.
• Police have arrested a 28-year-old woman from the Atlanta area for allegedly running a strip club in her basement and serving alcohol, including Jell-O shots, to teenagers. •
A bill headed for the Senate would increase funding for postpartum depression research — but it might also increase screening. Is this a good way to help mothers and babies, or another step in the "medicalization of motherhood?"
According to an article in Newsweek, over 1,000 men each day become depressed after the arrival of a new baby.
Gwyneth Paltrow is speaking out about her postpartum depression. You start to feel sympathy for her, but then you read things like this: "She suspects her depression stemmed from scaling back on her usual pre-baby treatments like acupuncture." • Here's a sneak peak at Christian Siriano on Ugly Betty. Cute! [Us, People]
Over on Babble's Strollerderby blog, there's a post (based on a report yesterday ) about the claim that the way a woman holds her baby can indicate whether or not she is depressed.
We decided to do our own diagnoses on some Hollywood moms. And we totally cheated, because the study is about babies an average of 7…
Poor Tabitha Soren. First her former colleagues at MTV get laid off; next, her husband, Michael Lewis, tells the world that she's an emotional mess. According to her husband's online essay in Slate today, the flame-haired former VJ isn't faring so well after the birth of her third child:
