Bernard L. Harlow

TL;DR: Pregnancy is not “protective” with respect to risk of relapse of major depression, and women with histories of depression who are euthymic in the context of ongoing antidepressant therapy should be aware of the association of depressive relapse during pregnancy with antidepressant discontinuation.

TL;DR: Premenopausal women with no lifetime history of major depression who entered the perimenopause were twice as likely to develop significant depressive symptoms as women who remained premenopausal, after adjustment for age at study enrollment and history of negative life events.

TL;DR: This study investigated whether race/ethnicity, age, finances, and partnership status were associated with antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms, finding that minority mothers have the same risk of antenataland postpartums depressive symptoms as white mothers.

TL;DR: Women with histories of chronic vulvar pain were 7 to 8 times more likely to report difficulty and great pain with their first tampon use than were women without such histories, and the cumulative incidence of chronic burning and knife like pain was similar across all ages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the relationship between obstetric perineal trauma and postpartum sexual functioning and found that women with second-degree or fourth-degree trauma were 80% more likely (95% confidence interval, 1.7-7.7) to report dyspareunia at 3 and 6 months post partum 41% and 22%, respectively, compared with women with intact perineum.