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Postpartum Depression Linked to Stress, Low Support and Prenatal Depression

by GLOOM

MHD card showing a new mother holding a baby at a dawn-lit window beside a balance scale weighted toward stress over support, illustrating a survey in which stress, low support and depression during pregnancy were linked to postpartum depression.

Stress, low support, loneliness and depression during pregnancy were the factors most strongly linked to postpartum depression in a 2026 survey of 975 mothers from German-speaking countries. Medical factors such as cesarean delivery and gestational diabetes showed no significant link.1 Research Highlights Life stress after birth stood out: feeling stressed by one’s general life situation …

Mid-Pregnancy Sleep Disturbance Tied to Birth Outcomes

by GLOOM

A Wuhan cohort of 2,210 pregnant women found that mid-pregnancy sleep disturbance was common enough to screen for and associated with several birth-outcome signals. Depressive symptoms, pre-pregnancy alcohol use, and moderate-to-severe vomiting raised sleep-disturbance odds, while higher dietary variety was protective.1 Research Highlights 18.14% had sleep disturbance: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores greater than …