Postpartum Blues as an Adaptive Response to a New Life Situation
Miroslava Bednarikova*, Emese Ban, Lubica Libová and Lívia Kollarová
ABSTRACT
The work has a theoretical-empirical character and is focused on defining postpartum blues and its impacts on a woman's psyche after childbirth. The aim was to identify possible triggering factors of postpartum blues, the most commonly manifested symptoms of postpartum blues, and the degree of women's adaptation to their new life situation - the role of mother. In the research, we evaluated the triggering factors of postpartum blues that contributed to its occurrence. Data were obtained from a self-constructed questionnaire. The selection of respondents was purposeful; the sample consisted of 103 respondents in the postpartum period, in the age category from 18 to 38 years. In the analytical part, we present the results. The research results indicate that iatrogenic factors during pregnancy, childbirth, and in the postpartum period have a greater share in the occurrence of postpartum blues than psychosocial factors.
