A survey published in 2009 about Maternal Health in Canada revealed that about 91% of the 6,421 new mothers reported they had enough information about postpartum depression.  91% sure seems like a high number, in fact, the summary of the survey put out by the Public Health Agency of Canada actually says:

"Women reported that they had enough information on basic infant and maternal
care (e.g., infant car seats, birth control, postpartum depression)...".

But when I read the survey results that's not at all what I see.  I see the 9% of new moms who say they <strong>didn't</strong> have enough information about postpartum depression.  Why aren't they talking about the 9% who didn't get "the memo"?!

Here's the thing, if you didn't develop postpartum depression of course you would feel like <strong>any miniscule</strong> amount of information was the right amount of information.  But what about those 9% of women who didn't feel like they had enough information - my guess (and I'll bet your guess too) is that they are precisely<strong> the women who developed a postpartum mood disorder!</strong>
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	<li>Let's look at the numbers:</li>
</ul>
9% of women = 577 new moms didn't know enough about PPD

7.5% of women = 481 new moms actually had PPD*

8.6% of women = 552 new moms were in the at-risk category*

(*according to the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale)

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<ul>
	<li>Extrapolating the results to the entire population of Canada:</li>
</ul>
9% of approx 370,000 births in Canada that year = <strong>33,300</strong> new mothers who may have felt like they didn't have enough information about postpartum depression.

So while the Public Health Department sounds like they feel good about 91% I do <strong>NOT</strong> feel one bit good about it.
<ul>
	<li>This is <strong>MY VIEW</strong> of their stats:</li>
</ul>
<strong>Of the 481 new moms in the study who developed Postpartum Depression 0% of them felt like they had enough information about it.</strong>

Of the 552 new moms in the at-risk category 97 felt like they didn't have enough information about PPD.

Clearly the number of new moms who feel like they have enough information about postpartum mood disorders needs to be 100%.