The doctor never expected that the postpartum depression she’d watched her patients suffer through might strike her too. Dr Tara Frankhouser struggled with postpartum depression after her first son (pictured together above, along with her husband Charles) was born in 2011. Dr Frankhouser says that the standard questions at follow-up obstetrical and pediatric doctor’s appointments - ‘So, how’s mom doing?’ - are not always adequate. Dr Frankhouser and her husband, Charles now have three children and both practice medicine in Statesville, North Carolina. These clinical descriptions of symptoms just don’t do justice to what women like Dr Frankhouser go through, as she recalls in her research.

Source: Daily Mail November 22, 2017 17:11 UTC