Notes
- baby blues – usually day 3 to day 10
- PND – usually week 4 onwards
- Psychosis – days to weeks postnatal
Data gathering
- As per depression + thoughts about harming child, other children in the house
Clinical management
Treatment as per normal depression
- Lifestyle
- Psychological
- Medications
- Fluoxetine – during pregnancy
- Sertraline – during breastfeeding
- Services – health visitor, child safeguarding