What is the difference between ‘baby blues’ and Postpartum Depression?

Dr. Katherine L. Wisner, M.D., expert on post-partum depression
Katherine L. Wisner, M.D.

“Distinction between a very brief, tearful, maybe anxious, uncomfortable 4 or 5 days, maybe up to 10 days post partum which is gone by 10 days is the blues …”

 

 


Video from March, 2010 - filmed at the 7th Annual Palm Beach Symposium

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Katherine L Wisner, M.D.
1998 NARSAD Independent Investigator Grantee
Norman and Helen Asher Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine