There is growing awareness of perinatal depression, but anxiety disorders are more common and often overlooked, affecting up to 30% of pregnant women. There is less awareness still of perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), yet up to 40 out of 100 anxious and/or depressed women also report obsessional, intrusive thoughts of harming the baby.
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