Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression?The open question here is whether Mr Purdum or any of those concerned aides (but not concerned enough to speak up at the time, naturally) have ever actually met a woman experiencing postpartum depression.
ON HER blog, called Dooce, Heather Armstrong chronicles her life as a disenchanted Mormon in Salt Lake City, her former career as a high-flying web designer in Los Angeles, her pregnancy and postpartum depression, and so on.
In most species a postpartum estrus occurs, usually within two weeks of the birth of the young; thus, the maximal potential reproductive rate is one young per year.
The reproductive potential of some rodents is well known; some mice are reproductively mature at four weeks of age, have gestation periods of three weeks or less, and may experience postpartum estrus, with the result that pregnancy and lactation may overlap.
She married a werewolf and gave birth to a half-werewolf kid, choosing to chase away the postpartum blues by participating in an apocalyptic battle for the future of magic.
In many polyestrous species the estrous cycle ceases during gestation and lactation (milk production), but some rodents have a postpartum estrus and mate immediately after giving birth.
Hofmann also isolated methergine, a drug used to treat postpartum hemorrhaging, from ergot.
During postpartum recovery, for instance, cowives can usually rely upon each other to perform the most strenuous work of the household.
One type, called silent lymphocytic thyroiditis, is painless and is particularly common in women in the first year after a pregnancy (postpartum thyroiditis).
Among the Garifuna of Honduras, fathers abstain from fishing, complex construction activities (such as building a house), and heavy exertion during the postpartum period.
In modern Western society one finds menstrual, pregnancy, and postpartum taboos perpetuated under an aesthetic or medical guise, and coaches still attempt to force celibacy upon athletes prior to competition.
