Pt. 1. Great Expectations: Cultural Myths, Customs, Ambiguities, and Misconceptions of Womanhood, Pregnancy, and Motherhood -- Depression: The Female Plague -- Neurotransmitters, Hormones, and Depression -- Depression in Pregnancy: The Hormone-Stress Connection -- Compounding the Risk -- Is It "All in Her Head"? When the Physical Masks the Emotional -- Dealing with the Many Faces of Depression.
Pt. 2. Medicating Depression During Pregnancy -- Breast-feeding and Medication: The Risks and The Benefits -- Nonpharmacological Treatments -- When Depression Goes Untreated, It Affects the Unborn Child -- And What About the Fathers?
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