It’s not just postpartum depression women need to worry about — they should also watch for depression before and during pregnancy. A new Kaiser Permanente study reveals more than one-in-seven women are depressed at some time during the nine months before they become pregnant, during pregnancy, or during the nine months after they give birth.

Nearly three-fourths of women who have postpartum depression were also depressed before they were pregnant.

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