Baby blues is a term used for a series of symptoms of emotional distress suffered by women after giving birth to her baby. Baby blues tend to attack in a span of 14 days after delivery. This syndrome usually begins to attack about 3-4 days after birth and disappeared within a period of 10-14 days later.

This condition is experienced by nearly 50% of women who just gave birth. Worse yet, this condition can occur since the first days after birth and likely to deteriorate in the third to fifth day after delivery.

Emotional instability in the mother caused the baby blues this will affect the baby. Stress and insincere attitude of the mother who constantly received by the infant, could someday make it grow into a child who cries easily, tend to be fussy, like anxiety, as well as moody. Another impact is no less detrimental to the child is prone to illness.

Signs

• Crying for no apparent reason.
• Cold sweats, shortness of breath, and suffered insomnia.
• Easy to feel anxious, nervous, tense, confused, sad, and gloomy.
• It’s easy to feel alone, angry, guilty, sick, and not valuable.
• Negative thinking on the husband.
• Loss of appetite and difficulty concentrating.
• Being not interested in her baby or be too concerned and worried about her baby.
• Weight gain accompanied with overeating or vice versa, occurs with weight loss would not eat.
• Feeling afraid to hurt themselves or their babies.

Cause
Hormonal factors. Post-delivery, hormone levels of cortisol (stress triggers hormones) increases sharply so that trigger stress. At the same time, laktogen hormone and prolactin for milk production (ASI) also increased, and progesterone levels reached the lowest point. Changes in the hormonal mechanisms that cause physical exhaustion that make easy mothers suffering from stress.
Emotional factors. Many women are not ready experiencing tremendous fatigue that accompanies the presence of her baby. In addition, he also still cannot adapt to changes in themselves, such as milk production is not smooth or breast pain and swelling.
Psychological factors. Less attention to the family especially my husband because all the attention focused on newborn baby. In fact, the birth process also makes women feel tired and sick that he needs more attention too.
Physical factors. Physical fatigue due to childbirth, baby care, feeding, bathing, changing diapers, and rocking all day long is very draining. Especially if there is no assistance from their husbands or other family members.
Social factors. Find it difficult adjusting to new role as a mother because of his lifestyle changed drastically. Feeling shunned by the neighborhood and felt it would feel bound to continue on the little guy.

Prevention

• Preparing ourselves since before birth that there are still severe postpartum struggle later.
• Communicating with her husband and family about the possibilities of the baby blues after giving birth and how to handle it if it really happened.
• Join a group of mothers to exchange experiences and tips on baby care.
• Positive Thinking for all the things that happen.
• Find someone who can help solve the housework if possible. If not, you should communicate with their husbands about the division of household tasks and infant care.
• Avoiding sugary foods and foods and beverages that contain caffeine because both of these foods has the potential to worsen the depression.
• Eating foods that are nutritious for the body quickly recovered, healthy and fresh.