Britney Spears has announced she is pregnant with her third child, six months after her 13-year conservatorship was ended. The 40-year-old pop star revealed that she suffered from perinatal depression during her previous pregnancy, adding: “I have to say it is absolutely horrible. ”Spears has two children, Sean Preston Federline, 15, and Jayden James Federline, 15, from her previous marriage to Kevin Federline.
Her third pregnancy is shared with her 28-year-old fiancee, Sam Asghari. In an Instagram post announcing her pregnancy, the Toxic singer wrote: “Women didn’t talk about [perinatal depression] back then… Some people considered it dangerous if a woman complained like that with a baby inside her. “But now women talk about it every day Thank Jesus we don’t have to keep that pain a reserved proper secret. ”View this post on InstagramBut what is perinatal depression and what are the symptoms?Perinatal depression is a mood disorder that occurs during or after pregnancy and can range from being mild to severe.
The word “perinatal” refers to the period of time before and after the birth of a child, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the US.
The condition includes prenatal depression (depression during pregnancy) and postpartum depression (depression that begins after the baby is born).
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