Zoloft: Can Postpartum Depression Return Even when Taking Prescribed Anti-Depressants?

After a rough battle with postpartum depression, you might feel as sense of relief when getting postpartum treatment from your doctor.  Starting on an anti-depressant medication, such as Zoloft, can help your postpartum depression, and get you back to feeling like yourself.  Zoloft is said to take up to eight weeks to fully "kick in", or take affect, but is it possible for symptoms of postpartum depression to return?  Even while taking the anti-depressants, such as Zoloft, as prescribed?

Well, the answer on whether postpartum depression can in fact return is, yes.  Now, this is definitely not good news to those suffering from postpartum depression.  It is an extremely hard adjustment for woman to make, being pregnant to having a new baby to care for.  Sure, we know our baby is healthy, and "okay", but it's more the feeling of being pregnant that often times creates the postpartum depression.

Some might wonder what it is that I mean by the feeling of being pregnant.  Well, women go through a very emotional ride while pregnant, and feeling their growing baby inside of them.   There is nothing comparable to being pregnant, and it is totally indescribable to those who haven't any children.  Not only is it the physical feelings of being pregnant, and lack there of, that can cause postpartum depression to return, but also the emotional, and hormonal aspects of your postpartum phase.  

I believe it's pretty safe to say that your pre-pregnancy hormones never quite go back to normal, even after postpartum.  Doctor's do say that within six weeks your hormones will return to normal, and this is often their bases for most postpartum depression cases.  Often times postpartum depression is referred to as postpartum blues, or baby blues.  It's said that most women after the birth of child will have some form of the "blues", and for some it will develop into postpartum depression, and will need a doctor's medical attention.