Depression is a serious illness that causes sadness, anxiousness, or feeling empty. Although pregnancy is a period of great joy that is not the reality for many women.

Around 1 out of 5 women have symptoms of depression during pregnancy. It is a serious medical condition and poses a risk for both the mother and the unborn baby. There are two types of depression in pregnancy:

• Major depression: It a serious illness where the patient’s ability to study, eat, work, and enjoy is been interfered.
• Milder depression: This is less severe. The patience may have long term symptoms in this period of time. She would able to conduct day-to-day activities, but then may not feel good r well during his work.

There are many reasons by which a pregnant woman undergoes depression. Some of them are as follows:

• Patience could have a personal or family history of depression. Even if she have never experienced a full blow of depression in her past but has a tendency to get anxious every now and then she is more suspected of depression.
• If you are undergoing some trouble in your relationship then don’t think that the newborn will help you to settle things. On the other hand, there would be more responsive. So seek professional advice especially if you are a victim of abuse.
• It there is a fertility problem than you may be under a lot of stress. And if you have gone through a number of fertility treatments than the emotional side may affect you. It very common t be terrified of losing your child you worked on the shard. This makes you more close to depression.
• If in your past there is miscarriage or loss of baby than you would be more vulnerable tensed.
• Pregnancy with complications can strain you all the more. There would be an emotional imbalance.
• Stress in lifelike planning to stay home after years of work, financial problems, job loss, relocating, loss of close once.