postpartum depression

English

Alternative forms

• post-partum depression

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Noun

postpartum depression (countable and uncountable, plural postpartum depressions)

1. (psychiatry) Depression experienced by a parent, usually the mother, after childbirth.

   Synonyms: postnatal depression, (ellipsis) postpartum, (initialism) PPD

   • 1999, Ridha Arem, The Thyroid Solution, →ISBN, page 216:

     Some women with postpartum depression and thyroid imbalance may require antidepressants and psychiatric therapy.

Translations

parent’s depression after childbirth

• Catalan: depressió postpart f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 產後抑鬱症 / 产后抑郁症 (caan² hau⁶ jik¹ wat¹ zing³), 產後抑鬱 / 产后抑郁 (caan² hau⁶ jik¹ wat¹)

  Mandarin: 產後抑鬱症 / 产后抑郁症 (chǎnhòu yìyùzhèng), 產後抑鬱 / 产后抑郁 (chǎnhòu yìyù)

• Chuvash: ача амакӗ (ač̬a amak̬ĕ)
• Finnish: synnytyksen jälkeinen masennus
• French: dépression postpartum f, dépression périnatale (fr)
• German: postpartale Depression f
• Hungarian: postpartum depresszió, szülés utáni depresszió
• Icelandic: fæðingarþunglyndi n
• Indonesian: depresi pascalahir
• Japanese: 産後うつ病 (zangō utsuyō)
• Malay: kemurungan lepas bersalin
• Polish: depresja poporodowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: depressão pósparto f
• Russian: послеродова́я депре́ссия f (poslerodovája depréssija)
• Spanish: depresión postparto f
• Ukrainian: післяполого́ва депре́сія (pisljapolohóva deprésija)
• Yoruba: àbísínwín

See also

• baby blues