2018-03-21
Shane Rattenbury, MLA
National research, released at tonight’s Post & Ante Natal Depression Support & Information (PANDSI) Twilight Seminar, will help to improve understandings of women’s experiences of traumatic births, and perinatal depression and anxiety.
Research from the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) finds that almost half (49%) of those 767 Australian women surveyed who had experienced perinatal anxiety and depression perceived that their birth was traumatic. The research also finds that 44% of women surveyed believed their birth experience contributed to the development of postnatal depression and/or anxiety.