25-Feb-2008, 14:40
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Postnatal depression ‘can be worse with a male baby’
Postnatal depression ‘can be worse with a male baby’
Giving birth to a boy can lead to higher levels of severe postnatal depression (PND) than having a girl, according to a study.
Claude de Tychey, of the French university Nancy 2, studied 181 women who had given birth and found that just under a third of them suffered from PND.
Nine per cent of the women in the study had severe PND and just over three quarters of those had given birth to boys.
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