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An injection given after birth to help prevent PND?

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megandsoph · 02/04/2007 09:43

Has anyone else been offered this?

My health visitor is lovely and currently coming round once a week as I seem to be getting very down about everything and anything lately. I have suffered with depression since the age of 18, (severe) at the time, which has seemed to raise its ugly head at times for the past 9 years.

Anyway HV wants to put a package together to do everything in her power to prevent PND, so has arranged for me to have an injection of somesort straight after birth to help prevent PND. She has arranged this as well as other things, but was wondering if anyone knows about this jab??

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Flamesparrow · 02/04/2007 15:11

But AND doesn't always mean PND (and from what I had read during the last pregnancy it quite often isn't related at all) - why are they injecting for things that might not be?

I'm all for watching for signs, making sure your DH knows what to look for, you being honest etc and expecting it, but treating for something that might not happen just feels wrong to me.

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