Editing Postpartum depression (section)

=== Media ===
Certain cases of postpartum mental health concerns received attention in the media and brought about dialogue on ways to address and understand more about postpartum mental health. [[Andrea Yates]], a former nurse, became pregnant for the first time in 1993.<ref name="Coodley_2002">{{cite journal | vauthors = Coodley L | title = Postpartum depression: voice from a historian | journal = Pediatric Nursing | volume = 28 | issue = 3 | page = 300 | date = 2002 | pmid = 12087655 }}</ref> After giving birth to five children in the coming years, she had severe depression and many depressive episodes. This led to her believing that her children needed to be saved and that by killing them, she could rescue their eternal souls. She drowned her children one by one over the course of an hour, by holding their heads underwater in their family bathtub. When called into trial, she felt that she had saved her children rather than harming them and that this action would contribute to defeating Satan.<ref name="Fisher_2003">{{cite journal | vauthors = Fisher K| title = To Save Her Children's Souls: Theoretical Perspectives on Andrea Yates and Postpartum-Related Infanticide. |date=2003 |journal=Thomas Jefferson Law Review|volume=25 | page = 599 }}</ref>

This was one of the first public and notable cases of postpartum psychosis,<ref name="Coodley_2002" /> which helped create a dialogue on women's mental health after childbirth. The court found that Yates was experiencing mental illness concerns, and the trial started the conversation of mental illness in cases of murder and whether or not it would lessen the sentence or not. It also started a dialogue on women going against "maternal instinct" after childbirth and what maternal instinct was truly defined by.<ref name="Fisher_2003" />

Yates' case brought wide media attention to the problem of filicide,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = West SG | title = An overview of filicide | journal = Psychiatry | volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 48–57 | date = February 2007 | pmid = 20805899 | pmc = 2922347 }}</ref> or the murder of children by their parents. Throughout history, both men and women have perpetrated this act, but the study of maternal filicide is more extensive.