Mothers who successfully breastfeed baby less likely to get postnatal depression new mothers who successfully breastfeed their babies are less likely to get postnatal depression, research suggests. Expectant mothers who plan to breastfeed after they have given birth but are unable to be at the highest risk of developing the condition, experts found. Around 13 per cent of new mothers experience post­partum depression within 14 weeks of giving birth. As well as posing serious mental health problems for the mother it can also have significant effects on the new-born’s cognitive, social and physical development, researchers said. They said the effect that breastfeeding has on postnatal depression is not well understood and set out to investigate whether there is a link between the two. The authors, from the UK and Spain, surveyed women who had almost 14,000 babies in the Bristol area during the 1990s when their children were two, eight, 21 and 32 months old.

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