Sunday, March 23, 2003
   
       Recent articles on counseling news 
discuss postpartum and postnatal depression.  Postnatal refers to an infant 
immediately following birth whereas postpartum refers to the period after birth.  
Postnatal would be similar to neonatal.  From this we can conclude that the 
term postnatal is probably inappropriate in these articles, since presumably the 
infant is not depressed.
