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- Title
Postpartum and feeling poorly.
- Authors
Klilsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article presents information on health problems faced by women after child birth. In a survey of 1,391 Scottish women who gave birth between June 1990 and May 1991, participants were asked to complete health questionnaires shortly after their discharge, about eight weeks after delivery and again 12-18 months after childbirth. Eighty-five percent of respondents reported at least one health problem while they were in the hospital, with the most common being tiredness (42%), painful perineum (42%), breast problems related to breastfeeding (33%), backache (22%) and breast problems not involved with breastfeeding (21%). Eighty-seven percent of women said they experienced some health problem in the first eight weeks postpartum, such as tiredness (59%), breast problems involved with breastfeeding (28%) and anemia (25%). depression (17%). The proportion of women whose problems could be treated medically declined over time, from 85% of women who experienced problems in hospital to 54% of those who reported problems at 2-18 months.
- Subjects
POSTNATAL care; CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY (Obstetrics); QUESTIONNAIRES; BREASTFEEDING; FATIGUE (Physiology); SURVEYS
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 3, p99
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article