Maternal depression during and after pregnancy may affect the child’s neurodevelopment.

‘Higher average maternal depressive symptoms during and after pregnancy predicted lower total developmental milestones in children.’

"Our findings further suggest that antenatal and post-pregnancy depression
have both independent and additive effects on neurodevelopment. Children of mothers with the most chronic and severe depressive symptoms during and after pregnancy had the most neurodevelopmental disadvantages," said co-lead author Dr. Marius Lahti-Pulkkinen, of the University of Helsinki, in Finland. 




Source-Eurekalert