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Article Source: CNNNine years ago, Chris Loo thought about putting her newborn daughter, Becky, in a basket on the steps of a church down the street from her home, and leaving her there.
"I don't think I really wanted to get rid of her, I just think I wasn't thinking at all," said Loo, 43, a social worker in Flushing, New York. "I started to really feel suicidal, like I just couldn't go on anymore." Watch her iReport
A recent study in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that postpartum depression is associated with higher levels of a brain protein called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), which removes chemicals that help stabilize mood. Researchers found that levels of this protein were greater in women four to six days after giving birth than in women who had not been recently pregnant.
#1 - Fri May 14, 2010 12:15 PM EDTMine lasted two years for each of my kids. That's four years of my life where I felt off, sad, tired and completely depressed. It felt like a cloud was over me all the time. It was awful.
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Yes....I feel great now! It was to the day on each pregnancies.... two years later to the day! Weird huh! The second time I knew what it was, so I was under a doctor's care so :)
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