According to Becker’s Hospital Review, Lebanon’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has launched a new program to screen new mothers for postpartum depression.
Reportedly, new mothers are typically screened immediately after giving birth then at their six-to-eight week postpartum checkup. DHMC’s new program will have women complete a screening program on a tablet before their baby’s two-week, two-month, four-month, and six-month checkups with the hospital’s pediatricians. If a woman is deemed positive for postpartum depression, their child’s pediatrician can connect her to a primary care physician or mental health provider.
According to pediatricians at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Manchester, the pandemic has led to an increase in cases of postpartum depression. They attribute this increase to isolation, lack of sleep, and natural hormone imbalances.
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