How to treat postpartum anxiety

Treatment for postpartum anxiety includes medication, psychotherapy and family care. Because of the need to breastfeed after childbirth, psychotherapy and family care can be tried first. Psychotherapy is mostly supportive psychotherapy, because comprehension psychotherapy may cause the patient’s mood to fluctuate greatly, which may affect the patient’s milk secretion, so supportive comfort, understanding, encouragement and other ways are used to ease the patient’s anxiety. In addition, it is also necessary to guide the family to take care of the mother, help the mother to adapt to the role of the mother, more communication with the mother, exchange, and then care and love the mother. If the mother still has obvious anxiety through psychotherapy and family care, or the anxiety is not relieved, you can first suspend breastfeeding. Then try to use a small dose of benzodiazepine anxiolytics, such as diazepam, alprazolam, and then also need to carry out psychological treatment and family care.