Dr. Tabatha Barber discusses postpartum issues rarely mentioned: exhaustion that can last years, urinary leakage that may persist for decades, and hair loss that sometimes never fully recovers. She distinguishes baby blues, which fade in two weeks, from postpartum depression, which needs professional help if it lingers.
Everybody should be allowed to have this evaluated right away. So
exhaustion after having a newborn, exhaustion that persists for years.
So common, never normal. Everybody should be allowed to have this evaluated right away. So
still leaking every time you sneeze 15 years later? Okay, so what if it's been 30 years and my hair never recovered?
Not normal. Baby blues are differentiated from postpartum depression by the amount of time, so they should resolve within 2 weeks and not persist longer than that. And it's that first 2 weeks mood shifts are profound that develop sometime thereafter definitely need to be evaluated.
