Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Mother–Infant Bonding: A Mixed‐Methods Study Among Postpartum Women in Ghana
Originally published 2026-07-31 · Nursing Research and Practice
Wiley · DOI 10.1155/nrp/2803636 ↗
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How do new mothers describe feeling close to their baby while experiencing low mood?
The survey and interview perspectives put maternal well-being alongside the experience of bonding, two concerns that families may experience together.
Who was studied?
Ghanaian mothers surveyed within one year of giving birth
Age / stage: First year after birth
Read with three questions
- How do new mothers describe feeling close to their baby while experiencing low mood?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (ghanaian mothers surveyed within one year of giving birth) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Mothers in Ghana reported their bonding and symptoms within the first postpartum year. A mother's report at that time does not establish how her infant would behave in an attachment assessment.
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Leticia Tornyevah; Jens Henrichs; Anjali Sharma; Ank De Jonge; Samuel Bosomprah (2026). Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and Mother–Infant Bonding: A Mixed‐Methods Study Among Postpartum Women in Ghana Nursing Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1155/nrp/2803636
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