Annotated Bibliography And Summary

The article “Prenatal depression and young low-income mothers’ perception of their children from pregnancy through early childhood” written by Helen Y. Lee, from Boston University and Sydney L. Hans, from University of Chicago in the journal Infant Behavior and Development addresses some points in the introduction. One main take-away being that depression in women during pregnancy is affecting a relatively high percent of expecting mothers. The other major point, is that no one has really explored the effect of prenatal depression and how it may impact the child later in life (Lee & Hans, 2015). One hypothesis that is looked at in this study is that prenatal depression may negatively shape the way an expecting mother may view their baby (Lee, et al. 2015). In this study, they used 248 young African American women who were under the age of 22, who also were not planning on moving from the area in which they lived and most of the mothers did receive Medicaid, at 94% (Lee, et al. 2015). In the experiment, the predictor variable is the questionnaire that was given to both depressed, and non-depressed mothers, with the dependent variable being the score or answers that are given on the questionnaire. Alongside the self-reported questionnaire, the mothers were also interviewed a total of 5 times during the study;

Because of this, I would tell a family member who is expecting a child to watch out for prenatal depression, and if she does feel like she is getting depressed, that she should absolutely seek some sort of help before the issue becomes bigger. If for whatever reason she cannot kick the prenatal depression, I would tell her to just know that no matter how she feels, nothing about what she is feeling has any regard or anything to do with the child, or how the child will act once they are brought into this