Strange, the article specifically did not seem to be referring to gestational diabetes but women who had diabetes going in. I thought diabetic women having children was considered near suicidal (Julia Roberts in “Steel Magnolias”?). Considering the population of the study, Medicaid moms in New Jersey (with all the predictable baggage that implies), lousy health, high BMI, wretched family circumstances, etc., more than average rates of depression would be a given.
But PPD does not seem to be a respecter of social status. I got the impression it either hits you or it doesn’t. But I also got the impression somewhere that it seemed to last about six months when it happens.
I have known women whose diabetes began in pregnancy. MOst of the time their bodies have corrected themselves and the condition returned to normal. In another case, the woman who plagued with diabetes until death. I also knew a high-risk woman with diabetes who had four pregnancies. She had three boys and I was always curious how the fourth one turned out. That was 20 years ago, so I’m also curious how she’s doing now.