What do the childfree know about post-partum depression? Hm...

[_dear_mariah]

monkeypussnz wants to know if since 1/3 of new mothers in New Zealand suffer from post-partum depression could this be a form of population control 'ala Anderea Yates?'Because clearly, 1/3 of the mothers in the world are killing off their babies

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[midnight_d]

Yeah, it's moderately common, actually. Most animals do it.

[papilio_luna]

I've known women who've done this. Other mammals almost always do.

Not saying I would, just sayin' it's not unheard of.

[crassy]

There are recipes online for things to make out of your placenta. As crunchy/granola as I am, I don't think I could do it. I don't eat offals so why would I eat my placenta.

[_dear_mariah]

Didn't you know 1/3 of all mothers pull a Yates? It's pretty common knowledge, silly. :P

[taldragon]

yeah, and then hopefully they leave home at 18

[joereaves]

This is kind of like that attitude that all schizophrenics go around stabbing people. OMG you have PPD you're going to go on a killing spree of your children...

I suspect if as she's implying most people with PPD are prone to child killing *and* 1/3 of all New Zealand mothers have PPD someone more influential than a person on lj might have noticed since that would lead to one hell of a jump in the murder rate.

[claudiag]

It's a pretty broad generalization and the OP is obviously confused about PPD vs PPP, but I don't think the question she asks is invalid or stupid. The population control bit, yes stupid, but I didn't read that as "killing babies left and right", more as an extreme example; wanting to know why PPD exists, not stupid.

[claudiag]

No, but infanticide and PPP are. And I can see how people would be confused about it all; there's not a lot of information out there about PPP (or PPD for that matter). The only reason I know anything about PPP is because a close friend of mine went through it with his wife after she gave birth. It was fucking scary. Before that, I didn't even know there was a difference.