10% of New Dads have Post-Natal Depression

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that about 1 in 10 new dads deal with depression for the first 3 to 6 months.   The study found that men were generally happy for the first few days  of fatherhood, but after a few weeks of sleepless nights and stressful crying, depression began to set in.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/19/1961
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8687189.stm

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