Severe post-delivery blues: Associated factors

Archives of Women's Mental Health

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-44

  Glangeaud Freudenthal, N M C ^a,b   Crost, M ^b   Kaminski, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Postpartum blues; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442296308     PISSN: 14341816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007370050033     Document Type: Article

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