butwhatif?
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I agree with this post-I think that this woman will absolutely pay the price for this horror once she is brought back to herself. Imagine, just imagine when she is brought back to being able to think clearly and to realize what she did. OMG. There are no words.
I am a HUGE advocate for testing the day after delivery. There is a physician by the name of Dr Klaiber who wrote a book called Hormones and the Mind, IIRC. He believes that women who will suffer PPD and the like can be dx'd as soon as the day after delivery but easily within 3 wks by drawing blood and measuring the recovery of their hormones after birth.
The only problem with this, is that sometimes its not a case of excess or not enough of the right hormones. Sometimes its just a sensitivity to hormones which wont show up on a test, so those as risk could be overlooked if their hormone levels seem normal.
I guess nothing is foolproof.
Every woman who gives birth should be educated about the possibility of PPD and PPP, and given a magnet or something with an emergency contact number for them to call when they hear voices, or are just not coping.
That way, even if the mom isn't in the right frame of mind to call, someone else in the home can.
JMO