6 Ideas to help avoid prenatal depression. The entire childbearing year - including pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum - is a time of tremendous change, psychologically and physically. Women need support to take care of themselves, emotionally and physically, through this important life-changing event. Pregnancy can make you vulnerable to emotional swings, caused not only by hormones and physical change, but psychological change, too. Bouts of depression may increase during pregnancy. … [Read more...]