INFLUÊNCIAS DA DEPRESSÃO PÓS-PARTO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL

INFLUÊNCIAS DA DEPRESSÃO PÓS-PARTO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL

• Autor
• Luisa Forti Bueno
• Co-autores
• Bruna Maria Souza Fernandes , Julia Hino Teodoro Saida , Livia Gallo Coletti , Marina de Oliveira Albino , Lucio Fabio Caldas Ferraz
• Resumo

• INFLUENCES OF POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT

  Introduction: Since Birth, the communication of the newborn with the world is aided by its mother. A progenitor's mental health can easily affect the quality of this first contact, however, mothers with postpartum depression tend to interact less with their babies. This condition is mostly observed through the lack of bounding with their babies in the first months of life, when small actions such as chattering and giving sympathetic looks are essencial to develop  the baby's neural connections. The main causes for postpartum depression are low self esteem, problems in marriage, unplanned pregnancy and the socioeconomic question. Objective: This review aims to estabilish the consequences of postpartum depression in the child development. Methods: Scientific articles from the last 17 years were gathered through the databases PubMed, SciELO, BIREME and Medline in Portuguese and English. Results: 56 articles were analyzed and they associated mothers with postpartum depression with childrens who showed difficulties in starting and mantaining social interactions, lack of their affectionate states displayed in their initial years, presenting a developmental delay. Discussion: Postpartum depression is characterized by persistent discouragement and guilt, while the puerperal period  requires that the mother adapts to this new reality, resulting in a emotional instability that dissarange the mother-child bounding that should be being formed. Consequently, insufficient sensorial, affective and social stimulations result in a delay in child’s development cognitive, affective and relational spheres. Conclusion: It is possible to associate the better development of the children with a proper mother-child interaction

  Keywords: Postpartum; Depression; Mother-Child Relations; Child Development

• Palavras-chave
• Depressão Pós-Parto, Relações Mãe-Filho, Desenvolvimento Infantil
• Área Temática
• Pediatria

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