Most people have heard that women can experience depression after the birth of a child. But the condition is not limited to moms: New dads can experience depression in the months after their baby is born, by all accounts an enormous life change. This can even happen simultaneously and with consequences for each of them and their new baby. To better understand these experiences, researchers from University College London looked at 23 past studies with data from more than 29,000 couples. The research team found that about 3 in every 100 couples experienced late postpartum depression -- when their child was 3 to 12 months old. For about 2 in every 100 couples, both parents had antenatal depression (before the child's birth) and early postpartum depression, meaning up to 12 weeks after the birth.
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