Post natal (or post partum if you're USian) depression is a much bigger problem than is generally recognised. Typically it'll occur in 10-15% of mothers, and if

Post natal (or post partum if you're USian) depression is a much bigger problem than is generally recognised. Typically it'll occur in 10-15% of mothers, and if there's a history of depression or other mental illness those numbers are much, much higher. Its also reasonably common in fathers, who while they don't have the physical shock to deal with, are dealing with everything else. Sadly at last in the UK its handled really badly, often with a health visitor just writing it off as "baby blues", and saying it'll pass. In most cases it probably will, but there seems to be pretty minimal training to recognise the cases where more needs to be done. I'm not usually one for this sort of thing, but my wife and I went through this a few years ago after the birth of our son, if you don't know where else to go or what to do my email address is in my profile, feel free to use it.