Elizabeth Corwin Postpartum Quotations

One of the problems with postpartum depression is that women usually aren't diagnosed until the disease is already established. If a woman's health care provider knew early on that a patient was slipping down this slope, he or she could intervene. It may not take much to screen for it, either - the questions in the fatigue test that we used took about two to three minutes to answer.

It was ultimately fatigue that best predicted which women would develop postpartum depression.