The complex effects of maternal expectations on postpartum depressive symptoms: when does a protective factor become a risk factor?

The Relationship Between Women’s Intention to Request a Labor Epidural Analgesia, Actually Delivering With Labor Epidural Analgesia, and Postpartum Depression at 6 Weeks

(2018) Sharon Orbach-Zinger et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

First-time mothers’ birth beliefs, preferences, and actual birth: A longitudinal observational study

(2018) Heidi Preis et al.   Women and Birth

Impact of Postpartum Mental Illness Upon Infant Development

(2017) Casey Hoffman et al.   Current Psychiatry Reports

Trends in Postpartum Depressive Symptoms — 27 States, 2004, 2008, and 2012

(2017) Jean Y. Ko et al.   MMWR-MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT

Lifetime costs of perinatal anxiety and depression

(2016) Annette Bauer et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

The impact of caesarean section on breastfeeding initiation, duration and difficulties in the first four months postpartum

(2016) Amy J. Hobbs et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

The meaning of a very positive birth experience: focus groups discussions with women

(2015) Annika Karlström et al.   BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Optimistic outlook regarding maternity protects against depressive symptoms postpartum

(2014) Thalia K. Robakis et al.   Archives of Womens Mental Health

Maternal expectations and postpartum emotional adjustment in first-time mothers: results of a questionnaire survey

(2014) Erin J. Henshaw et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Mother knows best? Comparing primiparous parturients’ expectations and predictions with actual birth outcomes

(2013) Shikma Bar-On et al.   JOURNAL OF PERINATAL MEDICINE

Women's childbirth preferences and practices in the United States

(2012) Amy Chasteen Miller et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE