沒辦法安撫寶寶老公也很挫折！不只媽媽有，爸爸也會有產後憂鬱症

初期他可能笨手笨腳地想要幫忙，卻被興奮過了頭的長輩擠擠擠，擠到最後排，又或是被心急焦慮的媽媽嫌棄。原本最熟悉的家人、伴侶，忽然都離自己遠去，圍繞在那個小小半獸人上。

我們常說女生照顧小孩很辛苦，很容易有產後憂鬱。但，你知道你的老公也有可能產後憂鬱嗎？他們跟你一樣愛小孩，一樣想積極參與育兒的生活，但因為種種因素，他們無法像你一樣熟練，他們無法哄嬰兒睡覺、小孩哭鬧只要媽媽，被各種嫌棄，新手爸爸也很挫折。

根據《美國醫學會雜誌》的報告，從妻子懷孕的前三個月到孩子出生6個月，全世界有10％的男人表現出憂鬱的跡象，在嬰兒出生後的3～6個月，這數字急升到了26％。2014年的《Pediatrics》中也提到，在小孩5歲之前，新手爸爸的憂鬱症提升到了68%。SadDaddy.com的網站創辦人Will Courtenay博士說：「美國有1/4的爸爸都有產後憂鬱，他們都需要協助。」

先前妞編輯介紹的以色列插畫家Devir就曾在一幅插畫裡展現出他脆弱的一面。

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YEHUDA DeVIR OFFICIAL（@jude_devir）分享的貼文於 PDT 2019 年 8月月 29 日上午 7:36 張貼

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