A nursing instructor asks the students to differentiate between postpartum blues, depression, and postpartum psychosis. Which of the following responses by the students would indicate that they know the difference between the three conditions?
a. With postpartum blues, the mother may feel she is in control of the situation.
b. In postpartum psychosis, the mother has delusions and hallucinations.
c. Postpartum depression usually occurs within 3 to 10 days after delivery.
d. Women experiencing postpartum psychosis are reality oriented and feel in control of the situation.
B
The instructor would recognize that the students understand the difference if the students indicated that a mother experiencing postpartum psychosis would most likely experience delusions and hallucinations. Postpartum blues generally occurs within 3 to 10 days after delivery. The symptoms include feeling overwhelmed, tearful, fatigued, irritable, oversensitive, anxious, and having poor concentration or poor appetite. Postpartum depression occurs later than postpartum blues and can occur around the fourth week postpartum, and may occur anytime within the first year. Women who experiences postpartum psychosis loose touch with reality.
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