Depression during pregnancy hits millennials harder than it did their mothers in the early 1990s, reveals a new study published on July 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Network Open (JAMA).
Conducted by scientists from the University of Bristol in the U.K., the research started a generation ago by examining the health of expectant women and followed up to track the health of their children — now in their late 20s.
Since some of the 90s’ kids are now parents themselves, the team found a great opportunity to investigate how much either generation was affected by depression during pregnancy, notes Gizmodo.
The results revealed that young mothers today are a lot more vulnerable to depression than the previous generation. In fact, prenatal depression is 51 percent more common among millennial mothers-to-be compared to pregnant women 25 years ago, reports Newsweek.
The 1990s’ Moms
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