Artículo 7 – Cesárea, lactancia materna y depresión postparto: entre lo biológico y lo emocional

CESAREAN SECTION, BREASTFEEDING AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION: BETWEEN THE BIOLOGICAL AND THE EMOTIONAL

ABSTRACT

Attending to the concept of mother and child mental health, we must influence the care to the mother and their baby. In this article we will concentrate in the moment of birth and the im- mediate postpartum and how the base is built between the mother and the baby after birth.

If it is important to know and detect precociously the variables that can predispose to the psychopathology in the postpartum, equally important will be designing and creating structures and resources so that the prevalence of the puerperal disorders decreases.

We delve in the importance of the negative experience that some women suffer with a cesarean and in how this can unchain pathology in the postpartum with the next consequent repercussions in the bond with the baby.

We will see the importance of the immediate contact skin with skin immediately after the birth to favor the early commence of breastfeeding and its continuation as an element of protection of the mental health of the mother and for so of the relation with their baby