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Question: Normal Pregnancy symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mood is labile, teary
Self esteem is normal
Sleep: bladder or heartburn may awaken. Can fall asleep
No suicidal ideology
Energy: may tire, rest restores
Pleasure: joy and anticipation (appropriate worry)
Appetite: increases
Question: Depression Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mood: persistent gloom
Low self-esteem, guilt
Sleep: early a.m. awakening
Suicidal thoughts, plans, or intentions
Energy: rest does not restore
Fatigue
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Anhedonia
Poor appetite
Sadness, crying
Guilt and shame
Hopeless and helplessness
Overwhelm
Lack of feelings toward baby
Isolation
"This doesn't feel like me"
Worthlessness
Mood swings
Inability to care for self and family
Question: baby blues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NOT a mild form of clinical depression
- Affects 60-80% of new moms
- Mild
- Lasts no more than 2 days to 2 weeks
- Predominant mood is happiness
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- Common to have tearfulness, lability, reactivity
- Peaks 3-5 days after delivery
- Present in diverse cultures
- Unrelated to stress or psychiatric history
- Acute sleep deprivation
-Different in from PPD in length and severity
- Symptoms: mood swings, anxiety, sadness, irritability, crying, decreased concentration, trouble
sleeping
-Very common to feel this way, hormones have to readjust
-Every mother experiences some type of baby blues, it's normal
Question: Blues or Depression? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Severity
Timing
Duration
Question: Anxiety Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Agitated, irritable
Inability to sit still
Excessive concern about the baby's or her own health
High alert
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Appetite changes
Sleep disturbances
Constant worry
Racing thoughts
Shortness of breath
Heart palpitations
Question: Panic Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Episodes of extreme anxiety
Shortness of breath, chest pain, sensation of choking or smothering, dizziness
Hot or cold flashes, trembling, rapid heart rate, numbness or tingling
Restlessness, agitation, irritability
Excessive worry or fear
Panic may wake her up
Peaks at 2 minutes
Gets better after 10 minutes
Best treatment is education (anxiety can't hurt you)
Greatest fears:
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PMH-C TEST BANK EXAM ALL WITH 550
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
SOLUTIONS JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: Normal Pregnancy symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mood is labile, teary
Self esteem is normal
Sleep: bladder or heartburn may awaken. Can fall asleep
No suicidal ideology
Energy: may tire, rest restores
Pleasure: joy and anticipation (appropriate worry)
Appetite: increases
Question: Depression Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mood: persistent gloom
Low self-esteem, guilt
Sleep: early a.m. awakening
Suicidal thoughts, plans, or intentions
Energy: rest does not restore
Fatigue
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Anhedonia
Poor appetite
Sadness, crying
Guilt and shame
Hopeless and helplessness
Overwhelm
Lack of feelings toward baby
Isolation
"This doesn't feel like me"
Worthlessness
Mood swings
Inability to care for self and family
Question: baby blues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NOT a mild form of clinical depression
- Affects 60-80% of new moms
- Mild
- Lasts no more than 2 days to 2 weeks
- Predominant mood is happiness
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- Common to have tearfulness, lability, reactivity
- Peaks 3-5 days after delivery
- Present in diverse cultures
- Unrelated to stress or psychiatric history
- Acute sleep deprivation
-Different in from PPD in length and severity
- Symptoms: mood swings, anxiety, sadness, irritability, crying, decreased concentration, trouble
sleeping
-Very common to feel this way, hormones have to readjust
-Every mother experiences some type of baby blues, it's normal
Question: Blues or Depression? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Severity
Timing
Duration
Question: Anxiety Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Agitated, irritable
Inability to sit still
Excessive concern about the baby's or her own health
High alert
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Appetite changes
Sleep disturbances
Constant worry
Racing thoughts
Shortness of breath
Heart palpitations
Question: Panic Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Episodes of extreme anxiety
Shortness of breath, chest pain, sensation of choking or smothering, dizziness
Hot or cold flashes, trembling, rapid heart rate, numbness or tingling
Restlessness, agitation, irritability
Excessive worry or fear
Panic may wake her up
Peaks at 2 minutes
Gets better after 10 minutes
Best treatment is education (anxiety can't hurt you)
Greatest fears:
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