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Postpartum blues begin at anywhere from three days and last up to ten days. And those are days that you may experience feeling down, tired, a little bit overwhelmed, but you do see some light. You can see that there is some blue in the sky. You can find some joy in life and the things that you like to do. You can find some joy in the baby or with your significant other, but you have some periods where you are depressed and down, but you have periods where you are feeling good.

Postpartum depression can last anywhere from right after birth up to a year. That’s where you have more bad days than you have good. So if I wake up on a continuous basis and I am just extremely overwhelmed, I am anxious, I am not able to sleep, I am having some thoughts of “What have I done? Oh my gosh! I don’t know what to do with the baby. I am frightened.” I start having perhaps some panic attacks, I am breathing. I think I am going to be fainting. Then you are probably going into a postpartum depression. And the depression is basically lack of sleep, like I said, feeling overwhelmed, feeling anxious, sometimes having some obsessive thoughts about something, perhaps maybe the cleanliness of the baby. I have to change the baby every hour on the hour, or thoughts such as, “I am afraid to carry the baby because what if I drop her or what if she rolls off the bed”, even though she may be one or two days old. So that’s the difference. The difference between postpartum blues is, it’s kind of a depression that all of us experience in our lives, where postpartum depression continues and it just doesn’t seem to get any better.