PMH-C LATEST 2026 EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Effects of Untreated Depression: OB Complications - ✔✔Preterm birth
Low birth weight
Pre-eclampsia
Gestational diabetes
✔✔Bonding and Attachment - ✔✔Maternal distress affects "monitoring" activities
✔✔"Serve and Return" - ✔✔If responses are absent, unreliable or inappropriate, brain
architecture does not form as expected
Disruption in brain architecture can lead to disparities in learning and behavior
✔✔Breastfeeding and Depression - ✔✔Depressed moms breastfed for shorter times
Experienced more negatively
No effect of paternal depression on nursing
More breastfeeding problems
* Moms with depression and on medication fed with breastmilk for longer durations than
moms with untreated depression
, ✔✔Depression in Newborns - ✔✔Lower levels of dopamine and serotonin in newborns
Newborns crying more often
Brain activity of infant of moms with depression looks the same as in clinically
depressed adults
✔✔Safety Practices - ✔✔Moms with depression at 2-4 months
- less likely to use car seat
- less likely to reduce water temp on water heaters
Depressed moms at 30-33 months
- less likely to have safety latches
- No difference in car seat use than at 2 months
✔✔Child Development Practices - ✔✔Depressed moms of 2-4 months
- played less and were less nurturing
Depressed moms at 30-33 months
- spoke less to child, less able to limit television, unable to follow 2 or more routines,
less nurturing
✔✔Depression at 4 years postpartum - ✔✔Maternal depression is more common at 4
years postpartum than at any time in the first 12 months postpartum
Women with one child at 4 years postpartum report significantly higher levels of
depressive symptoms than women with subsequent children
✔✔Prenatal Suicide - ✔✔Blacks are more likely to have suicidal ideation
Most likely in women with lowest income
Related to psych illness, substance abuse
LESS associated with unemployment, adversity, single status and divorce
✔✔MMR - ✔✔maternal mortality rate
Unnatural cause of death
Highest with postpartum psychiatric disorders
Highest within the first year after diagnosis
✔✔Infanticide - ✔✔Rare
Greater risk with psychotic symptoms
Rarely has a history of abusing children
Usually part of a suicide attempt
No anger toward baby
Wish to not abandon baby and not burden others with baby
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Effects of Untreated Depression: OB Complications - ✔✔Preterm birth
Low birth weight
Pre-eclampsia
Gestational diabetes
✔✔Bonding and Attachment - ✔✔Maternal distress affects "monitoring" activities
✔✔"Serve and Return" - ✔✔If responses are absent, unreliable or inappropriate, brain
architecture does not form as expected
Disruption in brain architecture can lead to disparities in learning and behavior
✔✔Breastfeeding and Depression - ✔✔Depressed moms breastfed for shorter times
Experienced more negatively
No effect of paternal depression on nursing
More breastfeeding problems
* Moms with depression and on medication fed with breastmilk for longer durations than
moms with untreated depression
, ✔✔Depression in Newborns - ✔✔Lower levels of dopamine and serotonin in newborns
Newborns crying more often
Brain activity of infant of moms with depression looks the same as in clinically
depressed adults
✔✔Safety Practices - ✔✔Moms with depression at 2-4 months
- less likely to use car seat
- less likely to reduce water temp on water heaters
Depressed moms at 30-33 months
- less likely to have safety latches
- No difference in car seat use than at 2 months
✔✔Child Development Practices - ✔✔Depressed moms of 2-4 months
- played less and were less nurturing
Depressed moms at 30-33 months
- spoke less to child, less able to limit television, unable to follow 2 or more routines,
less nurturing
✔✔Depression at 4 years postpartum - ✔✔Maternal depression is more common at 4
years postpartum than at any time in the first 12 months postpartum
Women with one child at 4 years postpartum report significantly higher levels of
depressive symptoms than women with subsequent children
✔✔Prenatal Suicide - ✔✔Blacks are more likely to have suicidal ideation
Most likely in women with lowest income
Related to psych illness, substance abuse
LESS associated with unemployment, adversity, single status and divorce
✔✔MMR - ✔✔maternal mortality rate
Unnatural cause of death
Highest with postpartum psychiatric disorders
Highest within the first year after diagnosis
✔✔Infanticide - ✔✔Rare
Greater risk with psychotic symptoms
Rarely has a history of abusing children
Usually part of a suicide attempt
No anger toward baby
Wish to not abandon baby and not burden others with baby
