can new born babies have depression?

They can actually show signs of certain mental illnesses and depression, however it won’t be the typical moodswings and general symptoms like with older children because newborns don’t yet have the emotional capabilities and abilities like older children. Generally heriditary depression starts showing from an older age, maybe 5 or 6. Newborns and babies can also show signs of other mental disorders such as schizophrenia (I read an interesting article once about a child with this condition and she showed signs almost from the day she was born)

becuase my baby brother keeps in haling and exhaling deeply..

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You might want to read this, the internet seems quite limited on infant depression. I don’t think it is a subject that has been researched that much.

http://funadvice.com/r/14j2928bdui

I don’t think babies can meet the diagnostic criteria for depression.

Some babies are happier than others though. Everyone tells me my daughter was the happiest baby they ever saw. She hardly ever cried, she might seem a little fussy when she was hungry or needed a change, a burp, or a hug but it was rare that she ever cried. I see other parents with colicky babies that cry almost constantly.

yes , if your pregnancy is stressful , if not they could get depressed while growing up like 1 month and + or 1 week babies are humans to , and when they are older and they go to school or w.e and it comes out to be that there depressed most of the time its because they already had it since they were babies

yes , if your pregnancy is stressful , if not they could get depressed while growing up like 1 month and + or 1 week babies are humans to , and when they are older and they go to school or w.e and it comes out to be that there depressed most of the time its because they already had it since they were babies

yes , if your pregnancy is stressful , if not they could get depressed while growing up like 1 month and + or 1 week babies are humans to , and when they are older and they go to school or w.e and it comes out to be that there depressed most of the time its because they already had it since they were babies

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Possibly. I read an interesting study once on babies that die from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and they found that in many of the affected children their seratonin levels were lower, which is linked to depression. Depression can be caused simply by a chemical imbalance in the brain, therefore I think this could occur in babies also.

yes new born babies can have depression if both parents have depressions yes the baby can also have it deperession. depression can be inhairted.i have had my son in to see many doctors he was born with sever depression it was not for untill he was around 2 yrs old in most cases depressions is not dected untill they are between the ages 5 and 10.

I dont think they can thsy can suffer from depressioesn though they can suffer from stress induced by things such as trauma of birth or pick up on tension of tired parents.