Assisted reproductive technologies could be associated with higher risk of parenting difficulties in women with postpartum major depression.

No increased risk of postpartum major depression (PPMD) was reported in women conceiving through assisted reproductive technologies (ART). However, ART may be associated with a higher risk of parenting difficulties in women with PPMD. In 359 women with a PPMD admitted to a Mother-Baby Unit (MBU), ART-women (4.

Impact of paternal psychiatric disorders on parents-baby separation after mother-baby unit care.

Background: Paternal mental health may have an impact on parenthood especially in case of maternal postpartum severe psychiatric illness.

Objective: The aim of this study was to search for an association between paternal psychiatric disorder and parents-baby separation after a maternal joint hospitalization for a severe postpartum psychiatric episode.

Participants And Settings: In an observational, naturalist and multicentric study, 787 fathers whose partner was hospitalized in a mother-baby unit were included.

Pathways between Risk/Protective Factors and Maternal Postnatal Depressive Symptoms: The ELFE Cohort.

Objective: The risk factors for postnatal depressive symptoms (PNDS) are numerous, but little is known about the protective factors or the interactions between different exposures. The present study explored the pathways between maternal, infant and parenthood vulnerabilities or risk/protective factors and PNDS at 2 months postpartum (PP) in a large sample of women from the general population.

Methods: We used data from the French ELFE cohort, a nationally representative cohort of children followed-up from birth.

Comorbid borderline personality disorders in women with post-partum depression admitted to mother-baby units.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with perinatal depression and parenting difficulties. However, little is known about the characteristics and specific effects of BPD in women with postpartum depression. This study aimed to explore 1) the sociodemographic, mental health characteristics, and motherhood difficulties in women with a major depressive postpartum episode (MDPE) and a comorbid diagnosis of BPD, compared to those with other personality disorders (other PD) or no PD and 2) whether BPD itself may be an independent risk factor for infant neglect in women with a MDPE.