Association of Postpartum Maternal Mood With Infant Speech Perception at 2 and 6.5 Months of Age.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Language development builds on speech perception, with early disruptions increasing the risk for later language difficulties. Although a major postpartum depressive episode is associated with language development, this association has not been investigated among infants of mothers experiencing a depressed mood at subclinical levels after birth, even though such a mood is frequently present in the first weeks after birth. Understanding whether subclinical depressed maternal mood after birth is associated with early language development is important given opportunities of coping strategies for subclinical depressed mood.

Objective

To examine whether depressed maternal mood at subclinical levels 2 months after birth is associated with infant speech perception traject

SUBMITTER: Schaadt G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature