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While the precise causes for postpartum depressions are unknown, several factors have been suggested:
In severe cases, postpartum psychosis (also known as puerperal psychosis) can develop, characterized by hallucinations and delusions. This happens in about 0.1 - 0.2% of all women after having given birth.
Postpartum depression can happen after the birth of any child, not just the first one.
Sometimes a preexisting mental illness can be brought to the forefront through a postpartum depression.
After the National Organization for WomenNational Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist group founded on June 30, 1966 in Washington, D. by women attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women. Among the 28 founders were Betty Friedan, author of T (NOW) insisted that Andrea YatesAndrea Pia Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a woman from Houston, Texas, USA, who is currently serving a life sentence for methodically drowning her five children (ages six months to seven years) in a bathtub on June 20, 2001. She was suffering from a severe had postpartum depression, the Individualist Feminists of Ifeminist.com pointed out that postpartum depression is quite common and most sufferers do not murder their children. In fact, Yates suffered from postpartum psychosis. After Ifeminist.com pointed out that this stigmatized a large number of mothers and made them less like to seek professional help, NOW removed their claims from their official website. Some believe that Yates' fundamentalist churchFundamentalist Christianity is a fundamentalist movement, especially within American Protestantism. The term, Fundamentalist tends to have a variable meaning. Historically, and for those who use the name to describe themselves, a Fundamentalist Christian bears some responsibility for the murder, as the church allegedly urged her to ignore her psychiatrist's orders. Yates methodically drowned her children in a bathtubA bathtub is a plumbing fixture used for bathing. Modern bathtubs are roughly rectangular in shape and are made of either fiberglass or porcelain-coated steel. Extremely old bathtubs dating to before the advent of indoor plumbing are usually made of galva in her Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas house on June 20, 2001.