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Postpartum mood disorder

A postpartum mood disorder is a mental health condition after childbirth that causes persistent or disruptive changes in mood, thinking, or behavior.

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Emotional high after delivery

Emotional high after delivery

What an emotional high after delivery means After childbirth, some people describe feeling unexpectedly energized, clear-headed, unusually optimistic, or intensely connected to the baby. This can happen even after a difficult labor or a physically demanding birth. The term postnatal euphoria has been used in research to describe a positive emotional surge in the early […]