Postpartum Depressive States
Three Postpartum Depressive States
Postpartum Blues
A mild depressive state typically beginning within a couple days to the first week postpartum.
Postpartum Depression
A moderate depressive state typically beginning 6 to 12 weeks postpartum.
Postpartum Psychosis
A severe depressive state requiring immediate and urgent emergency psychiatric care.
Course Lessons
About this course
Education & Learning
A comprehensive instructional course to add to your doula portfolio.
This course is designed to assist the birth professional in recognzing three postpartum cognitive disturbances; postpartum blues, postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis and to help the doula to know her role should any of these three postpartum cognitive disturbances be encountered and to implore skills that can assist the mother in getting the needed help and care.
What We Will Cover
Course Objectives
1. Consideration of the signs and symptoms from the mother that mirror postpartum cognitive disturbances; postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis.
2. Addressing the signs and symptoms of postpartum cognitive disturbance; postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis within the Doula scope of practice.
3. Appropriate handoff of the mother’s care to those adequately qualified to care for signs and symptoms of postpartum cognitive disturbance, postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis.
Why this is Important
The Statistics
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Postpartum Blues
70% - Approximately seventy-percent of new moms will experience postpartum blues.
Postpartum Depression
35% - Upwards of thirty-five percent of mothers with a history of depression or mood disorders can develop postpartum depression.
Postpartum Psychosis
1% - An approximate one percent of mothers will experience postpartum psychosis. However, this number can rise to upwards of thirty percent for moms with a history of bipolar disorder.
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Complimentary Course Workbook
Professional Birth Tool
Included with your course is the course workbook, a complimentary resource and tool to the course material. The course workbook includes an infographic and space for your own notes and ideas.
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Fertile Optimism's Marika
Course Creator
A certified wellness coach that has worked for more than two decades in the medical field, receiving my wellness certification form the Institute for Wellness Education.
Having had my own rather difficult experience with fertility I developed a passion for the reproductive wellness of women trying to conceive in her later reproductive years, sometimes only to succumb to the symptoms of a too early menopause.
I designed these educational coaching programs to help you find your own balance in your reproductive journey, be it as you work through your fertility struggles, with the hope of a desired outcome, or as for you to have a more comforting transition into menopause.
Also, having been a doula to women of more advanced years. It is my delight to provide tools and resources for the doula who serves these like women.
Having had my own rather difficult experience with fertility I developed a passion for the reproductive wellness of women trying to conceive in her later reproductive years, sometimes only to succumb to the symptoms of a too early menopause.
I designed these educational coaching programs to help you find your own balance in your reproductive journey, be it as you work through your fertility struggles, with the hope of a desired outcome, or as for you to have a more comforting transition into menopause.
Also, having been a doula to women of more advanced years. It is my delight to provide tools and resources for the doula who serves these like women.
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