Mood and the transition to motherhood

The associations between mood as assessed by the BDI and the MAACL-D and salient issues during the transition to parenthood, such as parenting attitudes, were studied during the last trimester of pregnancy and during the early postpartum period in 30 primiparous women. Two broad categories of factors were correlated with mood. These included factors such as perceptions of pain tolerance and body image. The second category could be described as …