Women are at higher risk of two mental health problems in the weeks after childbirth, study finds

Postpartum women are at higher risk of depression and psychosis in the weeks after childbirth, a major new analysis shows.

Compared to the year before pregnancy, the risk of depression is about 20 per cent higher in the five to 15 weeks after childbirth, according to the study, which was published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.