Perinatal Mood Disorders

DEFINITION

• Major depression with perinatal onset (includes postpartum depression)
• "Perinatal depression" refers to a major depressive episode that occurs during pregnancy or within 4 weeks following delivery.
• "Postpartum depression" refers to an episode of major depression that begins within the first 4 weeks after delivery.
• Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are the #1 complication of pregnancy and childbirth. In 2017, the estimated cost incurred by mothers and their babies of untreated PMADs from conception through the first 5 years of the birth cohort’s lives was $14 billion.[1]