BABY BLUES

Abstract

Postpartum depression (or baby blues, in English) affects women who have just given birth to a fetus. From this event, an emotional discomfort is generated that, out of fear or guilt, establishes between the parturient and the child a relationship of conflict that can culminate in the elimination of the newborn. As a methodology for this study, we searched for publications on the subject, in physical and digital collections, in order to obtain information in the face of an evil that is so present in the daily lives of thousands of women. The objective of our work is to clarify information about this disease that affects women all over the world and, in this way, to bring information about treatments and diagnoses to the debate. This work is justified by the need to build a collection of information capable of helping women in this delicate moment of their existence. As a partial result of the research, we saw that, for some women who have already gone through this depressive phase, the physical and mental health condition tends to evolve into other diseases, with an expected duration of life.