User:TaliaUrb/Postpartum depression

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Purposed title of new section. Postpartum depression in unique parenting relationships (add section between 'Parent infant relationship' and 'postpartum depression in fathers)

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Postpartum depression expands far wider than biological mothers and is not unique to them specifically. While not much research has been done regarding post adoption depression, difficulties associated with parenting post-partum are similar between biological and adoptive parents. Women who adopt children undergo significant stress and life changes during the postpartum period, similar to biological mothers, which may raise their chance of developing depressive symptoms and anxious tendencies. Post partum depression presents in adoptive mothers via sleep deprivation similar to birth mothers, but adoptive parents have the added risk factors such as history of infertility. Additionally, preliminary research has shown childbearing participants part of the LGBTQ2S+ community may be more susceptible to prenatal depression and anxiety than cisgender and heterosexual people. According to two other studies, LGBTQ2S+ people were discouraged from accessing postpartum mental health services due to societal stigma adding a social barrier that heteronormative mothers do not have. Lesbian participants expressed apprehension about receiving a mental health diagnosis because of worries about social stigma and employment opportunities. Concerns were also raised about possible child removal in the event that a parent's diagnosis included mental illness. From the studies conducted thus far, although limited, it is evident that there is a much larger population that experiences depression associated with childbirth than just biological mothers.