Deep impact on mental health after becoming a mother? Special warning for women who have suffered brain injury

Becoming a mother is the most beautiful moment in every woman's life, but do you know that women's mental health can also be affected after becoming a mother? This time becomes even more sensitive, especially for women who have suffered a brain injury.

Becoming a mother is an important chapter in every woman's life. But did you know that women's mental health can also be affected after becoming a mother? In particular, this situation can be even more complicated for women who have suffered a brain injury. A research has found that women who have suffered a brain injury have a 25 percent higher risk of having serious mental health problems after childbirth.

The study, led by a team of Canadian researchers, highlights the importance of identifying individuals with past trauma during prenatal care and providing long-term, trauma-informed support to improve their mental health.

Lead author of the research, Samantha Kruger of McMaster University, Canada, said that we found that women with a history of brain injury are much more likely to have serious mental health challenges in the years after delivery. Kruger said that this relationship was especially strong for those who did not already have any mental illness. The study says that brain injury during pregnancy and postpartum care can be an important but overlooked risk factor. The team monitored more than 7,50,000 women who gave birth in the Canadian province of Ontario between 2007 and 2017 and monitored mental health for 14 years after delivery.

The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, showed that 11 per cent of women who had suffered a prior brain injury developed a serious mental illness, compared with seven per cent of women without a prior concussion. Importantly, among women without a pre-existing mental health condition, having a prior brain injury increased the risk of developing a serious mental illness by 33 per cent. Dr. Hilary Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough, said sleep is vital to recovery after a head injury, but sleep deprivation is a reality for many new parents