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A nurse is assessing a postpartum client who is exhibiting tearfulness, insomnia, lack of appetite, and a feeling of letdown.
The nurse knows these findings are characteristics of.
postpartum fatigue is not a specific condition but a common symptom that many postpartum women experience due to physical and emotional demands of childbirth and caring for a newborn.
postpartum psychosis is a rare and severe mental disorder that affects about 0.1% to 0.2% of postpartum women. It involves symptoms such as pronounced sadness, disorientation, confusion, paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, and thoughts of harming oneself or the infant. It usually develops within the first 2 weeks after delivery and requires immediate medical attention.
the letting-go phase is a psychological stage of postpartum adjustment that occurs around the third week after delivery. It involves accepting the reality of parenthood, relinquishing the fantasy of the ideal child, and establishing a new identity as a mother.
It does not involve tearfulness, insomnia, lack of appetite, or feeling of letdown.
This condition is characterized by feelings of sadness, lack of appetite, sleep pattern disturbances, feeling of inadequacies, crying easily for no apparent reason, restlessness, insomnia, fatigue, headache, anxiety, anger, sadness. It usually occurs within the first few days after delivery and resolves within 2 weeks.
The correct answer is choice D. Postpartum blues. This condition is characterized by feelings of sadness, lack of appetite, sleep pattern disturbances, feeling of inadequacies, crying easily for no apparent reason, restlessness, insomnia, fatigue, headache, anxiety, anger, sadness. It usually occurs within the first few days after delivery and resolves within 2 weeks.
Choice A is wrong because postpartum fatigue is not a specific condition but a common symptom that many postpartum women experience due to physical and emotional demands of childbirth and caring for a newborn.
Choice B is wrong because postpartum psychosis is a rare and severe mental disorder that affects about 0.1% to 0.2% of postpartum women. It involves symptoms such as pronounced sadness, disorientation, confusion, paranoia, hallucinations, delusions, and thoughts of harming oneself or the infant. It usually develops within the first 2 weeks after delivery and requires immediate medical attention.
Choice C is wrong because the letting-go phase is a psychological stage of postpartum adjustment that occurs around the third week after delivery. It involves accepting the reality of parenthood, relinquishing the fantasy of the ideal child, and establishing a new identity as a mother.
It does not involve tearfulness, insomnia, lack of appetite, or feeling of letdown.