"Anna" wrote in message
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I am currently working on a project to investigate if there is any
link between post natal depression and caesarean sections.

Does anyone have any information that supports or disproves this
theory?

I suspect that women who have poor birth experiences, which in many cases
include cesareans (when women feel railroaded or forced into the surgery
against their will), will be more likely to experience post-natal
depression. And of course, women who have traumatic natural birth (or more
likely, operative vaginal birth) experiences, who think they should have had
cesareans, will likewise be more prone to depression. Why? Because *some*
depression is anger turned inward. If you can't be angry at your doctor
("Because he saved my life!!!") then you have to be angry at someone. And
that only leaves yourself or your baby.

Of course, much Post Natal Depression is chemical in nature. That's a
separate issue.

--angela