Increased traumatic childbirth and postpartum depression and lack of exclusive breastfeeding in Black and Latinx individuals

Ananya S Iyengar; Tsachi Ein-Dor; Emily X Zhang; Sabrina J Chan; Anjali J Kaimal; Sharon Dekel

doi:10.1002/ijgo.14280

Increased traumatic childbirth and postpartum depression and lack of exclusive breastfeeding in Black and Latinx individuals

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2022 Sep;158(3):759-761. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14280. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

Authors

Ananya S Iyengar¹, Tsachi Ein-Dor², Emily X Zhang¹, Sabrina J Chan¹, Anjali J Kaimal^{3

4}, Sharon Dekel^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), School of Psychology, Herzliya, Israel.
³ Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: breastfeeding; childbirth trauma; coronavirus pandemic; mental health; postpartum depression; postpartum: postpartum PTSD; unplanned cesarean.

MeSH terms

Breast Feeding
Depression
Depression, Postpartum* / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Parturition
Postpartum Period
Pregnancy
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic*

MeSH terms

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