BIG BABYKILLING and BIG LATEX have new ammo in their war against the Natural Law.

Quick, ladies! Kill your kids before they make you go nuts and...well...kill somebody!

Kansas City Star: Having babies makes women go insane! study finds
New moms face increased risks for a variety of mental problems, not just postpartum depression, according to one of the largest studies of psychiatric illness after childbirth.

New dads aren’t as vulnerable, probably because they don’t experience the same physical and social changes associated with having a baby, the researchers and other experts said.

Penis bad, Vagina vulnerable.

The study, based on medical records of 2.3 million people over a 30-year period in Denmark, found that the first three months after women have their first baby is riskiest, especially the first few weeks. That’s when the tremendous responsibility of caring for a newborn hits home.

During the first 10 to 19 days, new mothers were seven times more likely to be hospitalized with some form of mental illness than women with older infants. Compared with women with no children, new mothers were four times more likely to be hospitalized with mental problems. New mothers also were more likely than other women to get outpatient psychiatric treatment.

However, new fathers did not have a higher risk of mental problems when compared with fathers of older infants and men without children.

Ditto.

The prevalence of mental disorders was about 1 per 1,000 births for women and just .37 per 1,000 births for men.

Mental problems included postpartum depression, but also bipolar disorder, with altering periods of depression and mania; schizophrenia and similar disorders; and adjustment disorders, which can include debilitating anxiety.

The study underscores a need for psychiatric screening of all new mothers and treatment for those affected, said an editorial accompanying the study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Two of the editorial’s three authors reported financial ties to the psychiatric drug industry. The study researchers said they had no financial ties to the industry.

Hmmm...Big Pharma too...

The lead author, Trine Munk-Olsen, a researcher at Denmark’s University of Aarhus, said that similar risks for psychiatric problems probably would affect new parents in other developed nations, including the United States. However, differences in screening practices and access to health care might influence whether parents elsewhere are hospitalized, she said.

Hard data on the number of women worldwide affected by postpartum mental illness are scant, but postpartum depression alone affects about 15 percent of U.S. women.