Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Postpartum depression as the main predictor of impaired mother- infant bonding: A prospective study in a low-risk obstetric and neonatal cohort
Originally published 2026-05-29 · PLOS One
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0347856 ↗
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How is postpartum mood assessed separately from a mother's sense of bonding?
Repeated observations link the timing of mood assessments and bonding reports during the early caregiving period.
Who was studied?
Mothers in a low-risk obstetric and neonatal sample followed after childbirth
Age / stage: Early infancy
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- How is postpartum mood assessed separately from a mother's sense of bonding?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (mothers in a low-risk obstetric and neonatal sample followed after childbirth) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Repeated postpartum observations were drawn from a low-risk obstetric and neonatal sample. They do not directly describe families facing intensive neonatal care or high-risk pregnancies.
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Marielle Ribeiro Feitosa; Saint Clair Gomes Júnior; Emanuella Carneiro Melo; Antonio Brazil Viana Júnior; Paulo César de Almeida; Fernanda Rebelo (2026). Postpartum depression as the main predictor of impaired mother- infant bonding: A prospective study in a low-risk obstetric and neonatal cohort PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347856
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